Jeff Abrahamson on 27 Jan 2004 03:41:01 -0000


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[PLUG] bogofilter pre-filter


Bogofilter works quite well, but it is not perfect, and once in a blue
moon mail from a good correspondent is classified as spam.

What I would like to do, then, is to modify my procmail script to
check first if the sender is a member of a known list of good senders.
If yes, then don't run bogofilter.  If no, then run bogofilter.

Generating the list of known good senders seems easy: I'll define it
as addresses in my palm pilot or a mutt alias.  I can find these with
lbdbq, I think, or a simple perl script certainly.  I could use perl
to generate this nightly.

I could write a simple perl script to extract the From: address from
the email, extract the email address, then search for that string as
an exact line match in the file of known good senders.

But maybe a solution to this already exists, although I haven't found
it when googling.  Indeed, it's a bit hard to find the right query.

Anyone heard of anything relevant?

-- 
 Jeff

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