> > I don't use bogofilter - I've never looked at it before this - but it is > > clear from the bogofilter FAQ on the bogofilter site at > > > > http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/faq.shtml > > > > that it is relatively easy to use bogoutil to report the state of the > > database in terms of how much it's learned etc. No doubt there is also > > a way of poking a message through bogofilter itself to see if it does > > indeed clasify something a spam outside of Evolution. > That´s exactly the site, I´ve been reading up and down all morning. > Maybe I´m dumb, maybe I´m german - but: where the hell is the use of > bogoutil to check the installation described ? > I don´t want to compact my DB, I don´t want to convert or switch > anything, I don´t want to ignore tokens, I didn´t remove tokens nor do I > want to do that. I just want that filter to filter :-O
It's the section "How do I manually query the database?" - which despite what you said above, you seem to have found anyway: > > Anyway ... > bogoutil -d .bogofilter/wordlist.db |wc -| > displays: > --- VERY HELPFUL Hmm, ok - first thing you should do is to have a quick read on how to operate the shell/command line. Second, before shouting about things, it might be useful to check that YOU haven't made a mistake. The command you need is bogoutil -d .bogofilter/wordlist.db |wc -l > bogoutil -w .bogofilter/wordlist.db .MSG_COUNT > displays: 895 spam 6 good > SO WHAT ? Isn´t 895 mails enough to learn a bit ? This means that bogofilter is being trained, it's working. This is a GOOD thing. It means you have eliminated one of the possible areas of problems. However, a spam filter needs to learn good mail as well as bad - only 6 good messages learnt means it still won't start filtering. You need about 100 of both types. > > bogoutil -p .bogofilter/wordlist.db thomas > displays: > spam good Fisher > 1 0 0.991605 > What the hell does that mean ? > Found 1 spam-mail including the word "thomas", found no good mail with > it, so with 0.991605[dimensionless somethings created by Fisher], all > mails including "thomas" are spam ??? > > In the meantime I thought it can´t get worse, however ... > dbverify -a .bogofilter/wordlist.db > Fehler in der Datenbank: -- DB ist eine Datei, kein Verzeichnis. > That means, it´s an error, that the DB is a file, not a directory ?:-| Where does it say to use that command? Shouldn't it be db_verify .bogofilter/wordlist.db > > ... and > What is a non-transaction mode ??? > Does that make sense ??? Database, that does no transactions ??? > Databases I set up, are always doing transactions ... Try reading up on databases - non-transaction mode just means that rather than going through an SQL type interface that performs atomic operations on a backend database, the program interacts directly with the database files - it's simpler but more risky. > > Sorry for stepping on people´s toes, but that´s the most disconcerting > FAQ ever read :-( I thought it was a reasonable FAQ - much better than many others I've seen. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
