by Bogofilter is a mail filter that classifies mail as spam or ham (non-spam)
by a statistical analysis of the message's header and content (body). The
program is able to learn from the user's classifications and corrections.
The statistical technique is known as the Bayesian technique and its use
for spam was described by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For
Spam". Gary Robinson, in his weblog Rants, suggests some refinements for
improved discrimination between spam and ham. Bogofilter's primary
algorithm uses the f(w) parameter and the Fisher inverse chi-square
technique that he describes.
Bogofilter is run by an MDA script to classify an incoming message as spam
or ham (using wordlists stored by BerkeleyDB). Bogofilter provides
processing for plain text and html, supports multi-part mime message with
decoding of base64, quoted-printable, and uuencoded text and ignores
attachments, such as images.
Bogofilter is written in C. Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris,
OS X, HP-UX, AIX, ...
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Bogofilter-0.13.7.2 has been upgraded on SourceForge.Net from "new current
release" to "new stable release". An endless loop, detected in the
processing of base64 attachments, has been fixed.
Project page: http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/
Download page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=62265
Note: If you're using bogofilter older than 0.13.0, be sure to read
RELEASE.NOTES-0.13.
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BOGOFILTER NEWS
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0.13.7.2 2003-07-02
* Fixed loop in yyinput() caused by unexpected EOF.
0.13.7.1 2003-06-26
* Update bogotune to version 0.3
* For bogotune change processing of '-t' switch from pass 1 to
pass 2 so that it supercedes the config file.
* Added '-k size' option to bogofilter and bogoutil for
setting BerkeleyDB's cache size.
* '-Q' processing no longer requires that spamlist.db be present.
* Man pages now use '\ ' when a non-breaking space is needed,
instead of 0xA0.
0.13.7 2003-06-20
* Replaced tuning/tuning.sh with tuning/bogotune (and related files).
0.13.6.3 2003-06-18
* Minor code rewrites to speed up processing messages, mboxes,
and msg-count files. In particular, tuning/tuning.sh runs
are approx 47% faster than before.
* Fixed several errors in tuning/tuning.sh and reformatted
"Top 10 Results" output.
* Minor changes to bogoutil to support bogotune script.
* Added newlines to correct usage messages.
0.13.6.2 2003-06-05
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