Re: Problems with spam filtering and bogofilter.

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, malcolmpurvis@optushome.com.au wrote:
> All this discussion about spam filtering has made me try spam.el, in
> my case with bogofilter and POP.
> 
> However, if I add (: spam-split) to the start of nnmail-split-fancy,
> errors are produced during the split and all my mail gets sent to
> the bogus group.
> 
> I am using a fresh version of gnus and the latest version of
> bogofilter from SourceForce (0.9.1.2).  I see that spam.el's
> documentation refers to version 0.4 so perhaps there is come
> incompatibility?  In particular, the output of bogosort -v is:
> 
>          X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.355906,
>          version=0.9.1.2
> 
> while spam-check-bogofilter is searching for 
> 
> 	    (re-search-forward "Spamicity: \\(0\\.9\\|1\\.0\\)" nil t)
> 
> This is all running under XEmacs 21.4.11 on PPC Linux.

Yes, you need 0.4 currently.  The bogofilter functionality is older
than the more modular implementation I did for ifile and spam-stat, so
it's a little more outdated.  The question is, should I expend the
effort to keep up with bogofilter?  Can you check to see if 0.9.1.2
has the same flags as 0.4?  If so, and all I need to fix is the regex,
no big deal, but if the interface has changed then maybe I need to
rewrite the bogofilter section of spam.el anyway.

This will have to wait until Monday so I hope you don't have urgent
spam meanwhile :)

Ted