Bogofilter training on KMail mailboxes?

[Derek Broughton]

Todd Slater wrote:

> On 1/15/06, Rob Blomquist <rob at robandmegan.net> wrote:
>> I am attempting to use bogofilter after a couple of years of running
>> SpamAssassin.
>>
>> Under SA, it was easy to teach it about spam: every night I ran a cron
>> job on my spamfolder, which has "maildir" style directories.
>>
>> according to what I have read on the bogofilter page, all I need to do is
>> run "bogofilter -s ~/.Mail/SpamPile/cur/, and the filtering will be done.
>>
>> Last night, while in ~/.Mail/SpamPile/cur/ I tried to run bogofilter -s,
>> and it hung all night.
>>
>> Today I tried while in ~ to run "bogofilter -s .Mail/SpamPile/cur/" and I
>> got "Extra arguments given, first: .Mail/SpamPile/cur/. Aborting."
>>
>> It appears to want a command format I don't understand. Thoughts?
> 
> It looks like you're using maildir format; you have to pass files to
> bogofilter, like an mbox (all mails in one big file) or the individual
> files in an mh or maildir. So, you need to train using
> 
> for i in *
> do
> bogofilter -s < "$i"
> done

Huh?  bogofilter really _does_ understand maildirs.  Just man bogofilter and
search for maildir.  The -B option is what you're looking for.
-- 
derek