Bogofilter with Claws Mail, seems not to act on spam

[John G Walker]

On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 10:49:46 +0000 Adrian via bogofilter
<bogofilter at bogofilter.org> wrote:

> Thanks to people on this list I have migrated my wordlist and am using
> it on a new version of Claws Mail with a new version of bogofilter.
> It goes back many years* and I have a 30MB .db file.
> 
> *oddly the oldest date is March 2023 though it looks like some entries
> are older.
> 
> But the problem is, though I faithfully mark all spams, I'm not seeing
> the effects.  Claws is set to move them to Trash and nothing ever is.
> I do seem to see many fewer spams using my home Claws than using other
> clients that don't filter, which suggests that it's silently deleting
> them, but that's not the behaviour I set.
> 
> I know this is likely to be a question for Claws, but I'm loth to put
> my head into the lion's mouth that is the Claws users list without
> having all my facts ready.
> 
> My initial question is, how can I test an individual message saved as
> a file with all headers?  The command-line examples in the FAQ are
> mainly for maildirs mboxes and MH and the only ones that seem to use
> individual files are in the instructions for specific mail clients
> such as this one bogofilter -n -v -B "%f".
> 
> I've tried "bogofilter -B -n -vv mail.txt " and "bogofilter -B -n -vv
> <mail.txt", but all I get out of this and similar commands is
> # 0 words, 0 messages
> 
> What command should I use to get a report on a single message saved to
> file?
> 
> Claws doesn't write an X-Bogosity header back to incoming mails for
> some mailbox formats, this is something to do with them being in
> memory at the time.
> 
> Many thanks, Adrian
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Adrian,

I too have had problems with getting bogofilter to work with Claws Mail
since I changed my distro from OpenSuse to Kubuntu last summer. I've
followed your posts both here and on the Claws Mail list with interest
but, until now, have had no time to take much in the way of action.

But, just to let you know, you're not the only one!

-- 
 All the best,
 John