From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-04-16T16:39:11+09:00
Subject: Re: [OFF-TOPIC] bogofilter (was: Re: Urgent Assistance)

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 08:01:59AM +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Thanks for the help.  Could you help me with a couple more questions?:
> 
> 1)  How do I know if the system here is using procmail?  I know it's 
> installed on the system.  Should I do this:
> 
> $ cat > ~/.forward
> | procmail
> 
> Will that do what I want?

It will unless your site's MTA doesn't honor it (happened to me) :)
But depending on how the MTA is configured you might not need it at all
(sometimes procmail is called automatically if ~/.procmailrc is found). 

> 2)  Do I need to do something to my mail client (mutt) to it reads the 
> mail from a different directory? (wherever procmail puts the mail).  I 
> suppose so.  I'll try google for that information.

You can tell procmail to put the mail anywhere you like w/
  MAILDIR=/path/to/dest/dir
in ~/.procmailrc.

Don't forget to instruct mutt to read mail from the same directory:
  set folder=/path/to/dest/dir
in ~/.muttrc.

> 3)  How do I train bogofilter?
> 
> I can see this:
> 
> > bash$ cat false-positive-spam | bogofilter -Sn
> > bash$ cat false-negative-spam | bogofilter -Ns
> 
> But I still need to get the false-(positive|negative) into a file.  Can I 
> just save the file with my mail client and do the above?  Or will that 
> lose some important information?

Should work. As you're using mutt you can tag all files at once ('t')
and then move them all to a different folder (';s').

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