[Users] Junk Meil and Bogofilter

[Brad Rogers]

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.

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        / _)rad        never immediately apparent"
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