[olug] Bogofilter

[Matthew G. Marsh]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, William E. Kempf wrote:

>
> Eric Penne said:
> > I wanted to test out bayesian filtering on my email.  I downloaded,
> > compiled and installed bogofilter from Eric Raymond at
> > http://bogofilter.sf.net on the olug server.
>
> I use Ifile for the same thing.

URL ? Curious as I am starting to play with the various programs and am
curious as to what people are actually using (yeah I could just google
it...)

[snip]

> Ifile allows for unlimited categorization.  This means that not only do I
> catch spam, but ifile also sorts my mail into various other folders.  For
> instance, mail from this group automatically goes to an "olug" folder.

[snip]

> I've got spam corpuses you can use to "seed" the engine, if you're
> interested.
>
> For refiling with ifile, I use a different approach.  My procmail scripts
> inject a new header, Ifile-hint, into the mail.  If it's misfiled, I just
> move it to the correct folder.  A cron script then finds mail with
> Ifile-hint headers that don't match the folder and "relearn" the mail.
> This means I don't need to have extra folders cluttering my system that
> aren't really used.

Hmmm - this is interesting as I use procmail extensively. Thanks!

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> William E. Kempf
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