Comments on: Evolution spam detection with Bogofilter

By: Surendra Singh

Surendra Singh — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:31:23 +0000

Important topic and many of you understand it well. However, for Evolution 2.8.1; I could not work out how to configure it based on info above and below the saved screen messages. I have installed bogfilter package already. A precise and stepwise instruction may enhance usefulness this article.

Thanks.

By: likewhoa

likewhoa — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:35:24 +0000

>=evolution-2.8.2.x

supports bofofilter now :)
so no need for your custom pipetoprogram filter.

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:40:31 +0000

I found bogofilter needed training with examples of _both_ spam and non-spam to work effectively. Maybe this is why Evolution was ineffective: neglect of the non-spam part of the training.

Thanks for an excellent article.

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:28:58 +0000

Excellent article and comments. Thanks.

When I set up bogofilter on my system, I took some time to play around with several different ways of conducting the training (on the command line using bogofilter -s and -n commands.) At several points through each training procedure, I used the command “bogofilter -v

By: Ningbojoe

Ningbojoe — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:54:32 +0000

Thanks for the heads up on this. I was wondering why my Spam detectors were not working and this helped me sort out this problem.
Thanks!!

By: Mexico Real Estate

Mexico Real Estate — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:54:53 +0000

That worked guys!! Thanks.. I had been trying to get bogofilter to work for over 2 weeks. No one on IRC would help me. Thanks!

BTW, Jeremy’s method worked better than sheepshearer’s. Sheepshearers file was not seen as an executable script file.

Ubuntu Edgy, Evolution 2.8.1

By: sheepshearer

sheepshearer — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:05:56 +0000

evo 2.8.1 on Ubuntu 6.10 (edgy) here too – and SpamAssassin won’t even run (due to some well documented Perl dependency).

however, to get bogofilter working you can do as above and then have two scripts:

/usr/bin/bogofilter_s
/usr/bin/bogofilter_u

each rule above then calls those scripts.

it’s a hack, but hey – they take a pipe to STDIN…

create your scripts with:

sudo echo “/usr/bin/bogofilter -s” > /usr/bin/bogofilter_s

sudo echo “/usr/bin/bogofilter -u” > /usr/bin/bogofilter_u

sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/bogofilter_?

HTH

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:07:24 +0000

With Ubuntu 6.10/Evolution 2.82, you need to create a wrapper script to invoke bogofilter correctly.

Like:
$ cat bin/bogofilter-u.sh
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/bogofilter -u

By: livingdaylight

livingdaylight — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:50:08 +0000

AHA…as i came to put my question i see that comment#13 by Torbjorn has already beat me to it. I was going to ask where this ‘Edit Rule’ thing is, and wondered whether it was due to having Evolution 2.8.1 but i couldn’t add bogofilter following your hack. Maybe there is another way? Torbjorn seems to suggest that there isn’t. Maybe things are improved anyway/evolved with v2.8.1 I’ll be putting spamassassin to the test. Please do let us know if you come up with another way though…

By: Torbjorn

Torbjorn — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:14:30 +0000

FYI, This tutorial doesnot work on Ubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10, which comes with Evolution 2.82. In this release of Evolutio, you have no option to include any parameters to the program. THere is only a browse button and no textfield you can enter it manually.

By: Piotr Bogus

Piotr Bogus — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:16:44 +0000

Thanks, for the tutorial, the only one i found on net, handling evolution and bogofilter. As you mentioned, spamassasin did not find any of my spam, now i hope bogofilter does.

By: Chris Hoeppner

Chris Hoeppner — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:02:11 +0000

Nice tutorial. Let’s see if it works. Expect feedback in a few weeks. I’m getting that goldmark spam, so there will be enough to teach bogofilter.

By: Magnus

Magnus — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:37:26 +0000

Very nice this tutorial. It realy helpd me out.

By: CNGIS.org weblog » evolution的防垃圾邮件功能

CNGIS.org weblog » evolution的防垃圾邮件功能 — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 04:07:29 +0000

[...] 默认插件bogofilter是激活的，一直没怎么注意，后来见别人讨论才知道还需要专门的配置才能让其生效，汗！具体的设置可以参考： http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2005/09/15/180/ [...]

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:53:10 +0000

Oops, I mean /usr/bin/bogofilter -n

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:43:07 +0000

I’ve got a pretty long list of friends and family in my filter list – they get moved over to a special folder. Same for vendors.

I’m thinking that I insert:

/usr/bin/bogofilter -h

..before moving to their special folders. Wouldn’t that help the baysian filter better understand what my ham looks like?

By: Israel

Israel — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:16:53 +0000

Very nice this tutorial. My best thanks to you.

By: Evan Monroig

Evan Monroig — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 04:46:20 +0000

The man page of bogofilter says that you can unlearn a false positive by launching bogofilter with options ‘-Sn’ and unlearn a false negative by using options ‘-Ns’

Evan

By: john

john — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:46:52 +0000

my guess is that it would be easy to implement other anti-spam systems via an evolution’s plugin architecture. I should have a look at this some day.

By: Diego Sevilla Ruiz

Diego Sevilla Ruiz — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:31:46 +0000

Hey, nice tutorial. I agree completely with your reasoning about evolution supporting more than one anti-spam. Also, it would be really easy if it supported “per-message pipes”, so that you could pipe a message through bogofilter to tell it wether the message is spam or not.

diego.