Re: how to use bogofilter efficiently

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, oub@mat.ucm.es wrote:

On 22 Oct 2003, tzz@lifelogs.com wrote: 
>> You can add a bogofilter spam exit processor to the "SPAM" group.
>> It will run the spam articles through bogofilter as you are
>> describing it.  It's not perfect yet, but should work for you.

> I am not sure I understand: I split my incoming mail on the imap
> server with the bogofilter into MAILBOX and the SPAM group.  This
> splitting is based on my database.  Now, since this splitting is far
> from optimal, I want to actualize my database. Should I move the
> relevant from my MAILBOX to the SPAM box?  Otherwise how does
> bogofilter know about the new database?

Because your spam-splitting is done on the server, you can't really
train bogofilter on a client.  The best you can do is move articles
to a "train" group and then run bogofilter on it on the server
every now and then.  spam.el has some facilities for moving articles
around.

You could hack the source to make a remote-training-bogofilter
processor, but that's probably not something you're interested in
doing, and definitely isn't something I have the time to do :(

> In addition: could I combine (setq spam-use-BBDB-exclusive t) and
> (setq spam-use-bogofilter t)?  Like first the mail is split into the
> MAILBOX (only bbdb members in) and SPAM, spam and unclassified, (*)
> then a bogofiler runs on this splitting mail into REALSPAM and
> HARMLESS or so.

Not in that order.  You can do a specific order thus in the fancy
split rules:

--> set spam-split-group to "REALSPAM"
(: spam-split 'spam-use-bogofilter)
--> set spam-split-group to "MAYBESPAM"
(: spam-split 'spam-use-BBDB-exclusive)
("mail")

If you do it this way, you'll have to set spam-split-group with a
function outside of spam-split.  Let me know if this makes some
sense.

Ted