Re: Using Eric Raymond's bogofilter tool within Gnus

[Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>]

On Tue, 03 Sep 2002, François Pinard wrote:

> > From what it looks, your script could easily also support spamprobe, it's
> > similar to bogofilter in use, only that it uses cleartext operation mode
> > specifiers rather than options as -n or -s (as bogofilter does).
> 
> > 1. spamprobe  http://sourceforge.net/projects/spamprobe/
> >               uses GNU gdbm
> 
> The maintainer of `spamprobe' wrote (I've been told so, I did not read him
> directly) that he was not very satisfied with GNU gdbm performance in this
> context, and thought about abandoning this approach.

I've been using this for some days now, and it's fast and working
alright, some missed positives, and only three false positives in the
beginning, but no more now.

I have killed bogofilter's data base and let it train by SpamAssassin,
but bogofilter 0.7 keeps flagging most things as spam even when it
isn't. Something must still be wrong with this bogofilter.

> > 2. bayespam   http://www.garyarnold.com/projects.php
> >               [...] but looks targetted at qmail

Still haven't tried this.

> `qmail'?  Given the choice, I would stay away from Daniel Bernstein works.  No
> doubt that he is very competent, the problem is not there.  I saw him relate

Qmail has some unfixed bugs and incomplete documentation, but there is
no way reporting these bugs -- that will lead qmail disciples to a "talk
the error away" or "you don't need that" strategy, and make things look
quite contrasting to DJB's qmail BLURB finally. But that's a different
story, I'd only vote against offering special "qmail-inject" interfaces
in Gnus. A qmail bug list is at http://mandree.home.pages.de/qmail-bugs.html