by rodgoslin » Dec 6th, '19, 00:52
Unfortunately, bogofilter does not work that way, with whitelists and such. It 's all rather opaque, but seems to rely on word choice and frequency, so relies largely on statistics rather than rationality. perhaps I should explain, that at the time, I was getting upwards of thirty or more spam messages a day, and going through all those every day to check whether of not they were spam, while bogofilter was doing a good job, was a chore. I might as well just gone through the listing and used common sense to determine their validity, It came to the same thing. so I unchecked the Claws option to set a spam directory, and the spam spontaneously disappeared. Rather like moving it to /dev/nul. But with the OS UK instance where it was ruled as spam with no previous experience, seems to indicate that bogofilter is unreliable without an overview which takes as much time as not using the bogofilter option. Hey, ho. I used to use the Claws filtering options, but they were awkward and not particularly reliable against the spam of the time. So I'll just have to rely on the 'net taking spam sites down. Which, at the moment seems to be working, most of the time.