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