kmail and bogofilter do not work together using kmail antispam wizard

Bug #61060 reported by Piero Ottuzzi
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bogofilter (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: bogofilter

Hi,

in a clean installation, if you setup bogofilter as SPAM filter using kmail wizard, it looks like bogofilter cannot mark what is SPAM and what is HAM: every message, even after some weeks of training, has a spamicity of 0.52000000.

To fix this problem I did:
> create a dir and copy there some known SPAM messages (call them something
like s1, s2, ..., sN)
> in the same dir copy some known HAM (aka GOOD) messages (call them something like h1, h2, ..., hN)
> rm -rf ~/.bogofilter (maybe you want a mv ;))
> rm -rf ~/.bogofilter.cf (maybe does not exists...)
> bogofilter -v -n -B h1 h2 (tell bogofilter h1 and h2 are good messages)
> bogofilter -v -s -B s1 s2 (tell bogofilter s1 and s2 are SPAM)

After this manual feed bogofilter can understand what is SPAM and what is HAM; it works flawlessy with KMail and update its knowledge of what is good and what is not.

Hope I was clear, please ask for more info if you need them.

Bye
Piero

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Piero Ottuzzi (ottuzzi) wrote :

I forgot to mention: I found this problem in Kubuntu 6.06.

Bye
Piero

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Piero Ottuzzi (ottuzzi) wrote :

Hi there,

I just installed edgy and I can see tha same problem.

Bye
Piero

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Piero Ottuzzi (ottuzzi) wrote :

Hi,

there are many complains in Kubuntu-user mailing list:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/2006-October/009605.html

Bye
Piero

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Piero Ottuzzi (ottuzzi) wrote :

Hi there,

finally I found the problem: in bogofilter you need to mark both SPAM and HAM messages!
Marking only SPAM messages is not sufficient: you can have many messages marked as SPAM but the filter never kicks in... when you begin to mark also HAM messages things start to work as expected.

I think this is not an Ubuntu bug... please kill it ;)

Bye
Piero

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Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson) wrote :

The submitted said "I think this is not an Ubuntu bug... please kill it ;)"

Changed in bogofilter:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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