bogofilter satisfaction report

[JoeHill]

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:25:45 -0400
Lennart Sorensen disseminated the following:

> > I checked the config file, and uncommented these:
> > 
> > ham_cutoff = 0.45
> > spam_cutoff= 0.99
> > 
> > but still the same situation.
> > 
> > What the heck am I doing wrong here??
> 
> Remember to pass -n for nonspam training and -s for spam training.
> 
> You can then try and run bogofilter -T -M < nonspammbox to see what rating
> (and score) it assigns to messages in that mailbox.  -TT gives just the
> number in an easier to parse format.

It's assigning a score of '0' to almost all the messages in my non-spam
collection, which includes probably a thousand just from TLUG. Yet, when I
tested it just now, it sent a message from TLUG to the spam bucket. ??

> Most of my normal mail is running in the range 0 to 0.04 with the
> occational announcement list mail showing up at around 0.45.  The spam
> seems to run around 0.997 to 1.
> 
> How big is the .bogofilter/wordlist.db?

About 9 MB.

I even made sure that in /etc/bogofilter.cf I have this:

#### BOGOFILTER_DIR
#
#       directory for wordlists
#
bogofilter_dir=~/.bogofilter

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