bogofilter and thunderbird

[Matthias Andree]

On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, David Relson wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:08:50 -0400
> Mark Grieveson wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:15:00 +0200
> > Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > > external programs.  Given this, and what is said in the Bogofilter
> > > > faq, there must be a way to set up Icedove to work with
> > > > Bogofilter.  
> > > 
> > > Short of hacking the Thunderbird source? I'm not so sure about
> > > that...
> > 
> > 
> > If it can't be done, I wonder why the bogofilter faq would claim that
> > it can be done.  Surely the faq is not fibbing to us all.
> > 
> > Mark
> 
> Hopefully not :->  Possibly it could have been true for an old version
> of thunderbird and no longer be true.  I don't know and, since I don't
> use thunderbird, it's not a major concern.  I bet that one could wrap
> bogofilter in a shell-script (that thunderbird would find/run) that
> converts bogofilter results so that thunderbird will accept them.

WRT Thunderbird, it can rely on SpamPal or SpamAssassin headers, and
that's it - its built-in filter is trainable and IMO works rather well.

Bogofilter integration would require a setup that files Unsure/Junk into
separate (IMAP) folders externally and that trains from separate folders
that users would have to move unsure/misclassified mail into.

So let's just scrap that Thunderbird info from the FAQ.

-- 
Matthias Andree