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

Gil Weber gilweber at bellsouth.net
Fri May 31 16:13:06 UTC 2024


On Fri, 31 May 2024 22:00:21 +0600
Dustin Miller <dustbiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 31 May 2024 10:50:47 -0400
> Gil Weber <gilweber at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 30 May 2024 16:30:38 +0200
> > Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> wrote:
> >   
> > > On Thu, 30 May 2024 09:35:25 -0400, Gil Weber wrote:
> > >     
> > > > I do not see anywhere to mark as either "/Mark/Mark
> > > > as spam" and "/Mark/Mark as ham".      
> > > 
> > > Either right-click on a message summary line in the folder view,
> > > or use the "Message" menu where it's found near the bottom.    
> > 
> > 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?"
> >   
> DM: Hi, Gil. 🙂️ I don't use bogofilter or other spam filter with
> Claws, but I'm assuming that these are just two different ways of
> doing the same thing. It is pretty common with Claws and many other
> pieces of software to have multiple ways of doing things. Different
> users prefer doing it different ways, so when they give an answer to
> a question like yours, they will normally describe the way they do
> it, especially if that's the only one they use. I guess if you feel
> you need certainty on this, then probably only the developers (or
> other users who would know how to check the code or do the testing)
> would be able to answer your specific question. If they do end up
> being the same thing, then perhaps you could create an enhancement
> request in the issue tracker to have text strings used be the same
> for all instances of the same action, in case that would help to
> avoid confusion for some people. Cheers, ---Dustin


Thanks, Dustin! Appreciate your insight.
Gil



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