Re: can't train bogofilter

David Relson <[email protected]> Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:01:45 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.bogofilter.general
Organization Osage Software Systems, Inc.
Message-ID <20120610190145.7545e879@osage>
Renato,

I don't think updating headers fits with training.

Training is an action whose purpose is to update the wordlist.

The X-Bogosity header is added when scoring a message.

Scoring and updating are separate and distinct operations.

Regards,

David

On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:07:22 +0200
renato wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 07:57:41 -0400
> David Relson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hello Renato,
> > 
> > There are several problems with what you're doing.
> 
> Hi David and RW, thanks for your clarifications, it's all clearer now.
> 
> Regarding the header, wouldn't it be more natural for bogofilter to
> change it when I explicitly tell him a certain message is Ham or Spam?
> That way when I for example do a -Ns on a false-ham mail, I can then
> move it to the spam folder and be *sure* that all mails in the spam
> folder have a X-Bogosity: Spam... that certainty could be useful: one
> could for example mess up something and end with all messages in the
> spam folder, he could then easily distinguish, by looking at the
> X-Bogosity header, mails that bogofilter has never parsed, or has
> classified as Ham or Spam.
> 
> Not sure if it really makes sense, it's just an idea.
> 
> cheers,
> renato
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