On Thursday 11 August 2011 14:35:02 Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Brad Rogers <brad@...> 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. > > Besides being slower, I also feel that SA tends to produce more "false > positive" than Bogofilter - but I could not prove it. I can live with > false negatives, but I can't be sure to check the trash every day and > save false positives. > > However, if the spam filter is the culprit, you can edit its filter > and send messages to some folder (e.g. "check"), delete the database > (for bogofilter it's in ~/.bogofilter/wordlist.db) and let it learn > new. Spam ends up in the new folder, from time to time you check it, > can filter false positive if any. When satisfied, chenge the spam > filter to trash again and then run the "filter as spam" on the other > spam mails > > I do this from time to time, it wipes away old keywords that may no > more be usefull (spam techniques change), and usually after a few days > the number of spam messages to treat is back to normal. Done! So now when I reinstall bogofilter it will learn from scratch. I realised that I would have to remove any detritis left by the purged copy of bogofilter before reinstalling, but I hadn't started to look for it. Thanks, Thierry. :-) Lisi