Kmail/Bogofilter - not filtering

[stevellion]

Hi Guys,

I've seen a post similar to this in 'previous releases' but no answers to the thread.

Even though I've set up kmail using the wizard to use Bogofilter, it seems to do nothing.. I still get all my crappy spam - no matter if I mark them as spam, I still get the same dumb messages from the same senders.

Am I missing something? Is there something else to do in the setup?

TIA.

[elgordo123]

Re: Kmail/Bogofilter - not filtering

I use bogofilter and love it. It will take a few times before it gets really good. I'd recommend once a week for a month or so. I also have a subfolder under folder "bogospam" called "spamholding" so I can review the incoming spam and delete/remove it or move it back to inbox if it is a good email. (otherwise it'll get lost in your huge bogospam folder). Create the filters under "Settings" / "Configure filters" (not POP filters).

The webversion of this how-to was way to complicated and it doesn't need to be.
-apt-get install bogofilter
-Put bogofilter.cf in /etc
-Create a dir /home/yourusername/.bogofilter
-Create 2 folders in kmail, bogoNonSpam and bogoSpam (case sens)
-Create subfolder under bogoSpam called spamholding
-Copy or Move your kmail spam messages to bogoSpam, and non to bogoNonSpam
-Run Update_Bogofilter script. This will create files in ~/.bogofilter
(note the last image which is advanced tab on all filters)

Note: On "Advanced" tab of each filter, be sure to check "On incoming messages" and "From All Accounts".

-Setup 3 filters in kmail: (ALL data below is case sensitive and must be exact!)
First filter call it bogofilter_Check (You can use just this one to test it working)
Match any of the following / <any header> matches reg expr / .*
Remove Header / X-Bogosity
Remove Header / X-Attachments
Pipe Through / /usr/bin/bogofilter -p -e -v
X to incoming, X on manual filtering, X Add to Apply Filters Menu

Second filter call it bogo-MoveIfSpam (case sensitive on below commands)
Match all of the following: X-Bogosity / contains / Spam,tests=bogofilter,
Move into folder / Local Folders/bogoSpam/spamholding
Mark As / Spam
X to incoming, X on manual filtering

Third filter call it bogo-MoveIfUnsure
Match all of the following / X-Bogosity / contains / Unsure, tests=bogofilter,
Move into folder / Local Folders/bogoSpam/spamholding
Mark As / Spam
X to incoming messages, X on manual filtering, X If this filter matches, stop here

[stevellion]

Re: Kmail/Bogofilter - not filtering

Thanks - I'll give this a try.. Seems pretty complicated - I thought the Wizard would deal with this.. I can't imagine a newbie doing this..
(Thankfully I'm not.. but I am to Bogofilter)

[elgordo123]

Re: Kmail/Bogofilter - not filtering

It looks harder than it is. It is pretty simple really. If this forum accepted screenshots, I'd be able to show you with 3 screenshots. 1 for each filter.

[MFinkel]

Re: Kmail/Bogofilter - not filtering

I would like to give this a try. Could you e mail me the screen shots? Thanks
m.finkel@yahoo.com

[Jean]

Re: Kmail/Bogofilter - not filtering SOLVED for me

I am having trouble with this one too.

In a previous incarnation of ubuntu / kmail / bogofilter this was all just working as it should.

I had to reinstall and now it does not automagically move recognized spam to the trash folder anymore like it used to. And last time I didn't need to set things up like described here, it was just a matter of running the wizzard in kmail to setup bogofilter and that was that.

Now I have to manually wade through all the spam and tell bogofilter to move it, yuck.

I found a thread that told me to check 'Accounts / General / Filter messages if they are greater than' but that does not seem to affect bogofiltering here.

This is from the logs:
[11:03:49] Evaluating filter rules: (match any of the following)
"<size>" <less-or-equal> "256000"
[11:03:49] 1 = "<size>" <less-or-equal> "256000" ( 2028 )
[11:03:49] Filter rules have matched.
[11:03:49] Applying filter action: Pipe Through "bogofilter -p -e -u"
[11:03:49] Evaluating filter rules: (match any of the following)
"X-Bogosity" <regexp> "(yes)|(spam\b)"
[11:03:49] 0 = "X-Bogosity" <regexp> "(yes)|(spam\b)" (Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.1.5)

Any insights greatly appreciated.

EDIT it's starting to behave

Greets from Groningen Netherlands.
Jean.