(Replying to my own post) It turns out I was wrong. Spam filtering is happening, it just took a day or so to start doing anything. I had assumed that training Bogofilter on a bunch of messages would make it effective immediately but it didn't.
Sorry for the noise. poc On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 08:45 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 17:56 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: > > > In case you're interested in more info re bogofilter.. the faq has some > > quick info re training etc... ( note: per above, I believe you have to > > have training on BOTH ham and spam before bogofilter will be able to > > effectively mark mail ) > > > > http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/faq.shtml > > > > http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/ > > I've been using Spamassassin for over a year with a fair amount of > success (I'd get maybe 3 or 4 false negatives a day, and essentially > zero false positives) but Evo would also tend to leave multiple spamd > demons lying around, so I after seeing several positive reports of > Bogofilter I decided to try it. > > I'm on Fedora 7, Evo 2.10.3, and installed evolution-bogofilter via yum. > I disabled the SA plugin, restarted Evo, enabled the BF plugin, > restarted Evo again just in case, and trained BF on my Inbox (as ham) > and a batch of collected spam. I did this by selecting all messages and > hitting the "Junk" button (for spam) and by saving my entire Inbox in a > file and running "bogofilter -n < file" (for ham). > > Trouble is, my spam is not being filtered except when I do it by hand. > In case anyone asks, "Check new messages for Junk" is enabled. > > Should I expect to see 'bogofilter' running as a demon (the way spamd > does)? If so, it's not. Otherwise, I'd appreciate some advice. Maybe > there's something wrong with how I trained BF? > > poc > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
