[Users] spam filtering for tcltk at perl.org

[Charles Lane]

On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 16:10:48 +0100
RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 00:34:11 +0100
> Dave Howorth wrote:
> 
> > I'm subscribed to the tcltk at perl.org list and puzzled by how claws
> > behaves with respect to it, or specifically bogofilter. Every
> > message I receive from the list is sent to the 'maybe-spam' folder.
> > Any ideas? Is there some way I can inspect why it has classified a
> > particular mail as 'maybe-spam'?  
> 
> Try saving one of them before training and piping it through 
> 
>   bogofilter -vvv
> 
> This should tell you what tokens are contributing to the
> classification. If your repeat this after training you can compare the
> results and see if things are moving in the right direction. 
> 

One thing that I've found to be occasionally useful is to define
an "action button" with the shell command:

spamc -t 30 -R < %f |

which gives you the "spam report" on a message.
That's spamassassin, not bogofilter, but it might be
a useful way to check mis-flagged messages. 
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