Re: [Evolution] spam filtering

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

(Replying to my own post)

It turns out I was wrong. Spam filtering is happening, it just took a
day or so to start doing anything. I had assumed that training
Bogofilter on a bunch of messages would make it effective immediately
but it didn't.

Sorry for the noise.

poc

On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 08:45 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 17:56 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote:
> 
> > In case you're interested in more info re bogofilter.. the faq has some 
> > quick info re training etc... ( note:  per above, I believe you have to 
> > have training on BOTH ham and spam before bogofilter will be able to 
> > effectively mark mail )
> > 
> > http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/faq.shtml
> > 
> > http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I've been using Spamassassin for over a year with a fair amount of
> success (I'd get maybe 3 or 4 false negatives a day, and essentially
> zero false positives) but Evo would also tend to leave multiple spamd
> demons lying around, so I after seeing several positive reports of
> Bogofilter I decided to try it.
> 
> I'm on Fedora 7, Evo 2.10.3, and installed evolution-bogofilter via yum.
> I disabled the SA plugin, restarted Evo, enabled the BF plugin,
> restarted Evo again just in case, and trained BF on my Inbox (as ham)
> and a batch of collected spam. I did this by selecting all messages and
> hitting the "Junk" button (for spam) and by saving my entire Inbox in a
> file and running "bogofilter -n < file" (for ham).
> 
> Trouble is, my spam is not being filtered except when I do it by hand.
> In case anyone asks, "Check new messages for Junk" is enabled.
> 
> Should I expect to see 'bogofilter' running as a demon (the way spamd
> does)? If so, it's not. Otherwise, I'd appreciate some advice. Maybe
> there's something wrong with how I trained BF?
> 
> poc
> 
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