Re: how to use bogofilter efficiently

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, hoel@gl-group.com wrote:

> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> 
>> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, oub@mat.ucm.es wrote:
>>
>>> However there a still false negatives, so the only possibility I
>>> see is to move them to the folder SPAM and run bogofilter -s SPAM
>>> but isn't there a better more efficient way to do it.
>>
>> 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.
> 
> And how can a register my Ham as Ham for bogofilter? I'd like all
> new mail not marked as Spam to be registered as Ham.

Use the bogofilter ham exit processor.  The question then becomes,
what is and isn't ham?  You have to not only add the bogofilter ham
exit processor, you should also customize the ham-marks group
parameter if the default is not right for you.  For me, only ticked
(!) articles are ham (so ham processing doesn't happen for all
articles in a ham group), but you may want to expand that if you want
more non-spam mail to be ham.  There are also some settings on whether
ham should be processed in all groups and spam groups:
spam-process-ham-in-nonham-groups and spam-process-ham-in-spam-groups;
you can move ham around with ham-process-destination and spam with
spam-process-destination...

All this is in the Gnus manual, let me know if any part of it is
unclear.

Thanks
Ted