Am Samstag, den 26.11.2011, 19:10 -0430 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan: > Getting back to the question: under Preferences->Mail Preferences->Junk > there's a drop-down menu to select which spam filter is the default. It > also checks that the appropriate binary is installed. It's my > understanding that Evo will only use the default plugin, even if both > are installed and selected in the main Plugins menu. However this ... so thought I, but it isn´t just too much work to uncheck the unused filter ;-) (if only those were problems ...) > applies only to what Evo itself is doing. Your mail may already have > been marked as spam on its way to Evo, either at the mail server or in a I configured the server, not to do so - why else would I want local spam detection ??? > mail fetcher in your own machine (if you use one). Many servers have > SpamAssassin installed, and they could be marking messages as spam. In > that case, if "Check custom headers for junk" is selected, any matching > messages will *not* be passed through the default plugin, they'll just > be assumed to be spam. We´re coming to the point: > However your problem seems to be the reverse, i.e. you're getting spam > in your inbox. In that case, it's a strong indicator that the filter has > not learned enough to distinguish between ham and spam. The way to deal > with that is to train it. The exact method varies according to the > filter, but with Bogofilter (the one I use), the easiest way to to save > a bunch of spam messages (the more the better but around 100 is a good > number) in an mbox file and run "bogofilter -M -s < file". Do the same > with a bunch of non-spam messages (using '-n' instead of '-s') and > you'll have an initial corpus that Bogofilter can use. As mentioned before, I don´t need an initialized filter. I´d be glad if it would work after being presented 100 spam by the evolutuion-built-in classificator (that wadded paper thing) - but it doesn´t. So the question is: How can I check, if bogofilter is learning at all ?
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