procmail: Non-zero exitcode (1) from "/usr/bin/bogofilter"

[dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us]

Quoting Tom Anderson <tanderso at oac-design.com>:

>
> dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:
>> Quoting David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com>:
>>
>>> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:57:20 -0400
>>> dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:
>>>
>>>> Quoting David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:35:05 -0400
>>>>> dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> ..[snip]...
>>>> I ran    bogoutil -p ..../wordlist.db .MSG_COUNT
>>>> spam    good    Fisher
>>>> 111746    0      nan
>>> Bogofilter needs both good and spam email to work properly.  With a
>>> "zero" good count, it can't work.  Certainly feeding a bunch of ham to
>>> it would help.  Ideally there's a reasonable balance of ham to spam.
>>> Though there's no precise proper ratio for "balance", under 1::10 will
>>> likely work.  Have you 11,000 ham to train with?  What might work a lot
>>> better is to check wordlist.db files in your backup tapes to find a
>>> wordlist with reasonable .MSG_COUNT values.
>>
>> After I sent the email, I fed several users mailboxes (after checking
>> for spam) into bogofilter as ham.  This seems to have helped quite a
>> bit and put things back into focus.  Ive been trying to feed both, and
>> have a report as innocent option in webmail, which very few users are
>> using.  This puts emails into a non-spam mailbox which I then import
>> into bogofilter using bogofilter -nv < /var/local/not-spam.  I usually
>> dont get but 1-3 emails a month reported as innocent though.   Emails
>> that sneak through get reported as spam and imported using: bogofilter
>> -Nsv < /var/local/imp-spam.  I'm thinking I should change this and use
>> bogofilter -sv instead.  Maybe things will stay a little closer to
>> center then.  I really appreciate all the information.  It helps to
>> get an expert opinion.
>
>                                   spam    good    Fisher
> .MSG_COUNT                     820229   35342  0.500000
>
> My ratio is 23::1 and it works perfectly.  I don't think the ratio is
> important at all.  Just registering a single ham should get you going in
> the right direction so that you don't get divide-by-zero errors.  Then
> just train on classification errors and your accuracy should stabilize.
>   No need to jump through hoops to keep a particular ratio.  In fact,
> the ideal ratio is probably precisely the ratio of ham to spam you
> actually receive on a regular basis.
>
> Tom
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I think you are right on the money. I fed 20 good hams into bogofilter  
and it started working again.  Things just got out of whack because it  
didnt have any ham tokens.

thanks again,

ddh


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Dwayne Hottinger
Network Administrator
Harrisonburg City Public Schools