Hello, Brad,

On Thursday 11 August 2011 09:47:23 Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:28:20 +0100
> Lisi <lisi.reisz@...> wrote:
> > The emails were all in the Spam folder.  I have uninstalled
> > Spamassassin because it was more bother trhan it was worth.  It looks
> > as though I shall have to do the same with Bogofilter.
>
> At least you know.  That's good.  I'd caution against doing away with
> anti-SPAM software.  Although, personally, I use only bogofilter as I
> found SA to be too slow.

Yes, that was why I did away with SA.  And bogofilter is certainly much 
faster.

> As John suggests, I'd opt for reclassifying the supposed SPAM as HAM,
> since the software is only as good as the teaching it gets.

Had I had these emails before my having got rid of bogofilter I would 
certainly have followed this advice; but I  uninstalled it in almost a fit of 
pique after it helped itself to a whole lot more of my older mail!  (I had 
reclassified the SPAM as HAM and hoped that by running the filters on those 
files I could get the HAM back in the folders where it belonged.  At least I 
hope to learn from my mistakes!)

I'll see how I get on without a SPAM filter.  I have Gmail's SPAM filter 
pretty well trained and can probably handle manually the small amount that 
bogofilter was identifying that Gmail had missed.  It may be worth just 
putting a little more effort into training Gmail's SPAM filters.  

But I can see the merits in reinstalling bogofilter and just trying to train 
it better.  So when the dust settles a bit in a day or two, I shall probably 
reinstall and start training it.

Thanks for the help.

Lisi