[Users] How to verify Bobofilter is working

Tim Zakharov himemsys36 at hotmail.com
Mon Jun 9 04:06:42 CEST 2014


On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 20:26:20 -0500
Tim Zakharov <himemsys36 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Okay, I don't get much spam.  I average about 1 spam email every 2
> days.  But since I've installed Bogofilter, I have received 9
> (obvious) spam emails, and Bogo has not flagged a single one.  I made
> sure to flag all my clean email as Ham, and I have been flagging each
> of these spam messages as Spam, but I just received the 9th a few
> minutes ago. Is it reasonable that due to the low volume of spam I
> receive, it will take a long time for Bogo to start to learn what is
> spam in my system? Zero for nine is a pretty poor start.  Is there a
> way I can verify Bogo is working properly?
> 

I went ahead and turned X-Bogosity Header on hoping that future missed
spam will give me some clue in their headers on if Bogo is at least
considering spam as spam.

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Regards,

Tim Zakharov



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