Stroller wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There doesn't seem to be much interest in keeping the Portage tree
> up-to-date with the current releases of Bogofilter, however
> development of it is moving quite rapidly & it is at a stage now at
> which I believe the ebuild *should* be updated, if it is intended to
> remain in Portage.
>
>  From what I have heard of Spamassasin it uses several methods to
> detect spam (including blacklists based upon the reports of other
> users?), and I choose Bogofilter because it's relies purely upon
> Bayesian analysis of MY spam messages. So I would like to see
> Bogofilter remain current within Gentoo.
>
> I have forwarded below an email from Bogofilter's maintainer to the
> Bogofilter mailing list giving some outlines of why I think an update
> is needed at present. It's particularly worth noting that the present
> version of Bogofilter within the tree (0.13.7.3) uses two separate
> wordlists for spam & ham. Current releases use by default a *single*
> wordlist of tokens with a pair of spam/ham counts - the separate
> wordlists are depreciated, and the code will be removed in 0.17.x, so
> I think Bogofilter-0.16 may be a desirable step to reduce problems
> during `emerge --update`s in the future.
>
> If any interested &/or helpful dev could take a look at
> <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37017> I would be much
> indebted. To give you a head-start on the New Year's bug-fixing
> league-table, I think that if Bogofilter-0.16.0 were to enter the
> Portage tree, this bug <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31800>
> could also be closed.
>
> Many thanks for your time & bandwidth,
>
> Stroller.
>

You could setup SpamAssassin to function in an identical way to bogofilter
by weighting all other spam criteria to 0.0 points.  I found bogofilter to
be a pain to use and it is resource intensive.  However, it has the obvious
potential if it could ever be daemonized.

Tom Veldhouse


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