[sylpheed:30614] Re: some tutorial about using the spam filter ?

[Andrei Mircea]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:17:52 -0600
Gene Goldenfeld <genegold at highstream.net> wrote:

> Stefaan A Eeckels <Stefaan.Eeckels at ecc.lu> wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:26:48 -0600
> >Gene Goldenfeld <genegold at highstream.net> wrote:
> >
> >>  One thing I've never
> >> understood is if one has to look every time anyway, why not use a
> >> front end app like Mailwasher (free or Pro)?
> >
> >No filter is 100% reliable. If you decide to use Mailwasher you'll also
> >have false negatives and false positives. The advantage of bogofilter
> >(which I use centrally at my incoming MTA) is that it is trained with
> >the SPAM, and more importantly the HAM you get. It's also a
> >disadvantage because you need to train it, and as long as it isn't
> >well trained, its ability to distinguish between HAM and SPAM can be
> >less than a non-bayesian filter.
> 
> I'm not sure about Mailwasher Pro, but with the free version I just go
> through the emails on screen and eliminate the spam and others,
> marking them appropriately, so they never make it to Sylpheed.  A
> different approach if one is going to have to go one by one anyway.
> What got me interested in the subject again was the question about the
> bogo tutorial and the reply as to where the bsw*.exe file is
> located. I can't find it anywhere within the RC version folders.
> Anyone be more specific?
> 
> Gene
> 
bsfilterw.exe is not included with sylpheed, you must get from the web with google and put it in the sylpheed program directory - at least this is where I put it and it works.
	Andrei