[Users] Junk Meil and Bogofilter

[Neil Winchurst]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:28:38 +0100
Brad Rogers <brad at fineby.me.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 08:56:39 +0100
> Neil Winchurst <senex at drofle.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hello Neil,
> 
> >I am getting more and more rubbish emails recently. I have set up
> >Bogofilter and I keep marking this trash as spam. Now, am I missing
> 
> How many, approximately, messages have you marked as spam?  Ten?
> Twenty?  Also, have you taught bogofilter any ham?  A realistic
> minimum for ham is 100.  Pretty much the same for spam.
> 
> >something here? I thought the idea was that any emails previously
> >marked as spam would henceforth be automatically put into the junk
> >folder. Have I got that wrong somewhere? It doesn't seem to be
> 
> It should be, *if* it's detected as such, /and/ you've configured the
> bogofilter plugin correctly.
> 
> Fighting spam is an ongoing process.  Like anti-virus programmers, the
> anti-spam software writers are always (and only) playing catch-up;  As
> soon as anti-spam software learns to deal with one type of spam, the
> spammers come up with new types to get around previous methods for
> stopping it.
> 
> The short version is;  It's going to take time for bogofilter to learn
> what is and isn't spam to you.  Even then, you're still going to be
> hitting those "Learn as ham/spam" buttons on an almost daily basis, no
> matter what spam catcher you use.
> 

Thanks for that. Sigh, just will have to keep on at it then.

Neil