Cheap Bogofilter Frontend

Download: bogo-fe-0.3.tar.gz

This is a web frontend for bogofilter, a mail classifying system using statistical analysis.

Click for screenshot #1, #2, #3.

Features

• New in 0.3: Updates screen presentation on-the-fly
• Supports new calling syntax of bogofilter 0.11 and above (upgrade now if you have not done yet)
• Displays the subject of each incoming email with a distinct background color, depending on its rating (spam/good)
• Re-registers email messages appropiately with a single click
• Displays bogofilter's new rating, so that you can "re-register" as often as necessary to achieve spam recognition the next time
• Easily plugged into procmail; if you can integrate bogofilter, you can integrate the frontend
• Bogo-fe is independent of your email storage
• Decodes 8 bit header fields
• Save deletion of reviewed emails
• Complete installation in 3 minutes

Requirements

• Any PHP-enabled web server
• bogofilter 0.11 or later
• procmail or anything else which can pipe incoming emails to a script
• Optional: A DHTML-enabled user agent for on-the-fly screen updates

Installation

1. Install the take_email script from the distribution:

   mv bogo-fe-x.x/take_email ~
   chmod +x ~/take_email
   

2. Add a recipe to your .procmailrc:

   :0 c
   | $HOME/take_email $HOME/.bogotrain
   

3. Copy everything to your web directory (Note: magic_quotes_gpc should be off)

   cp bogo-fe-x.x/* /your/web/dir
   

4. Adjust the paths in config.php

License

As I want to encourage sharing of modifications to this package, I license this package under the GPL. Please contact me for alternative licenses for non-personal uses.