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Hello SuSE people. I use Kmail exclusively for email. About a year ago I used Spamassassin to get rid of spam but it was so slow that I gave up and uninstalled it. Now the spam is overwhelming. So I tried bogofilter in Kmail. I trained it with several thousand messages, both ham & spam. Worked pretty well for a couple of weeks but now it is putting everything into my Spam folder that should go into my inbox except the mailing lists I have told it not to check. When it does this, and I review the Spam directory, I click on the little green arrow at the top of Kmail to (supposedly) teach it that it is not spam, but ham. Doesn't seem to be working. Just keeps marking all of my personal messages as spam. As I said, I have about a dozen mailing lists that I exclude from bogofilter, but I also have a group of about 20 or 30 friends who trade jokes and other personal info back and forth, and many more correspondents for other purposes. These are the ones being effected and put into the Spam directory. The spammers use all kinds of words and phrases. Is bogofilter confused by the amount of info in it's spam directory and applying it to everything? Do I have to resort to listing all of my several hundred email addresses in the filters to be passed as ham? Would appreciate your thoughts, experiences, advice, whatever, in your use of bogofilter. Bob S.
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On Friday 08 September 2006 07:32, Bob S wrote:
I use Kmail exclusively for email. About a year ago I used Spamassassin to get rid of spam but it was so slow that I gave up and uninstalled it.
i previously had the same problem (some years ago), where SA was so slow that i ended up disabling it. A few months ago i re-enabled Spamassassin and found that it works much more quickly than before (or, more correctly, the kmail integration works much more quickly).
Now the spam is overwhelming. So I tried bogofilter in Kmail. I trained it with several thousand messages, both ham & spam. Worked pretty well for a couple of weeks but now it is putting everything into my Spam folder that should go into my inbox except the mailing lists I have told it not to check.
i'm using both Bogo and SA to detect spam. IMO, Bogo marks *way* too many things as spam. e.g., mails from my father and brother typically are bogofiltered as 95%+ spam.
Would appreciate your thoughts, experiences, advice, whatever, in your use of bogofilter.
Try enabling both SA and bogo, and see if that helps. i still get a lot of false positives, but my inbox is significantly cleaner than it was before enabling them. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts
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