bogofilter satisfaction report
Peter
plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Thu Apr 28 06:45:53 UTC 2005
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, JoeHill wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:35:54 -0400
> JoeHill disseminated the following:
>
>>> It will get better. Also look at the score of spam that 'passes'. That
>>> will give you a hint on how low you can dare to push the spam threshold
>>> in bogofilter.conf. The lower you push it the more drastic the filter,
>>> but it may start reaping legitimate emails.
>>
>> Hmmmm, not seeing any scoring in the headers of the ones that got through.
>> Back to the manpage ;-)
>
> Okay, now *I'm* spamming. I added -u -v to the Procmail recipe, and now when I
> tail my pmlog I see this:
>
> # 163 words, 1 message
>> From nsmcnwkwhhs-5Gr6kjZfi+CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org Wed Apr 27 20:47:28 2005
> Subject: MortHelpers Here ForYou
>
> ...but when I look at the headers for that mail, I don't see 'X-Bogosity'
> anywhere, despite what it says in the FAQ.
Silly question: is the ~/.forward mechanism operating ? Are any mails
collected in $MAILDIR/spam-bogofilter ?
Again, use the second example. And edit /etc/bogofilter.conf a little.
The defaults are reasonable but check it anyway.
Peter
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