[Users] How to check if Bogofilter is still working?

[Gil Weber]

On Fri, 31 May 2024 15:30:02 +0000
Slavko <linux at slavino.sk> wrote:

> Dňa 31. mája 2024 14:50:47 UTC používateľ Gil Weber
> <gilweber at bellsouth.net> napísal:
> 
> >OK, so for thousands of messages I have been using the drop-down in
> >the top bar and selecting either "learn as spam" or "learn as ham."  
> 
> IMO you misunderstand the concept. The CM is not frontend for
> bogofilter, it just allow one to train it (and filter by it), but
> both are independent projects and software.
> 
> >Has all of that been wasted effort trying to teach Bogofilter? Is it
> >instead **required** to so as you suggest and select either "Mark as
> >spam" or "Mark as ham?"  
> 
> If you want to do initial train of bogofilter you can:
> 
> + be patient and train it as message arrives
> + be impatient and train it by bunch of messages
> 
> In second case, you can again train it from CM, but would be better
> to visit bogofilter docs, where are described better approaches.
> 
> regards
> 
> 

Slavko, thank you.

But this does not answer my question responding to a previous post:

> >OK, so for thousands of messages I have been using the drop-down in
> >the top bar and selecting either "learn as spam" or "learn as ham."  

> >Has all of that been wasted effort trying to teach Bogofilter? Is it
> >instead **required** to so as you suggest and select either "Mark as
> >spam" or "Mark as ham?"  

Have I been wasting my time trying to train Bogofilter with the wrong
commands?

Thanks.