can't train bogofilter

[RW]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:40:55 +0200
renato wrote:

> Hello, I have a mailbox folder with spam mails that bogofilter has
> incorrectly filed as "Unsure" or "Ham", and I'd like to train it. So
> in the directory I gave this command:
> 
> for i in $(ls); do bogofilter -Ns < $i; done
> 
> which takes a while, but after that all messages still have an
> unmodified X-Bogosity header (i.e. it still reads "Unsure" or "Ham") -
> is this the supposed behaviour?

Yes, the header is added on classification for filtering and
informational purposes 


> If I also give the -p option, the
> message is written to stdout with a correct X-Bogosity header (i.e.
> spam), but my bash-fu is weak and I can't figure out how to correctly
> redirect this output to overwrite the original file - and most
> importantly 

> I don't know if that's really what I want to/should do.

Nothing unless you have a good reason to want the header updated.

> Also, after that command the file ~/.bogofilter/wordlist.db hasn't
> increased in size.

It don't think it expands one record at a time, but since you are
retraining, the number of tokens doesn't change anyway.