Provided by: bsfilter_1.0.19-2_all bug

NAME

       bsfilter — bayesian spam filter

SYNOPSIS

       bsfilter [options]  [commands]  < MAIL

       bsfilter [options]  [commands]  MAIL ...

DESCRIPTION

       bsfilter filters out spam mails.

       If  commands  are specified, bsfilter is in maintenance mode, otherwise it is in filtering
       mode.

       If bsfilter does not find spam in filtering mode, exit status is 1.

       If bsfilter runs with --pipe option or finds spam, exit status is 0.

COMMANDS

       --add-clean

       -c        add mails into the clean token database.

       --add-spam

       -s        add mails into the spam token database.

       --sub-clean

       -C        subtract mails from the clean token database.

       --sub-spam

       -S        subtract mails from the spam token database.

       --update

       -u        update the probability table from clean and spam token databases.

       --export-clean
                 export the clean token database.

       --export-spam
                 export the spam token database.

       --import-clean
                 import the clean token database.

       --import-spam
                 import the spam token database.

       --export-probability
                 export the probability database (for debugging purpose).

OPTIONS

       --homedir directory
                 specify the name of the bsfilter's home directory.

                 If this option is not used, a directory specified with the environment  variable
                 "BSFILTERHOME" is used.

                 If  the variable "BSFILTERHOME" is not defined, ".bsfilter" directory under your
                 home is used.

                 If the variable "HOME" is not defined, a directory which bsfilter is located  at
                 is used.

       --config-file file
                 specify  the  name  of  the  bsfilter's  configuration  file  "bsfilter.conf" in
                 bsfilter's home directory is used by default.

       --max-line number
                 check and/or study the first number of lines default is 500. 0 means all.

       --db sdbm|gdbm|bdb1|bdb|qdbm
                 specify the name of database type "sdbm" by default.

       --jtokenizer bigram|block|mecab|chasen|kakasi

       -j bigram|block|mecab|chasen|kakasi
                 specify algorithm of a tokenizer for Japanese language "bigram" by default.

       --list-clean
                 print filename of clean mail.

       --list-spam
                 print filename of spam.

       --imap    access IMAP server.

       --imap-server hostname
                 specify hostname of IMAP server.

       --imap-port number
                 specify port number of IMAP server. default is 143.

       --imap-auth method
                 specify authorization method. default is "auto".  "cram-md5"  use  "AUTHENTICATE
                 CRAM-MD5"  command.   "login"  use  "AUTHENTICATE  LOGIN" command.  "loginc" use
                 "LOGIN" command.  "auto" try "cram-md5", "login" and "loginc" in this order.

       --imap-user name
                 specify user name of IMAP server.

       --imap-password password
                 specify password of imap-user.

       --imap-folder-clean folder
                 specify destination folder for clean mails. "inbox.clean" for example.

       --imap-folder-spam folder
                 specify destination folder for spams. "inbox.spam" for example.

       --imap-fetch-unseen
                 filter or study mails without SEEN flag.

       --imap-fetch-unflagged
                 filter or study mails without "X-Spam-Flag" header.

       --imap-reset-seen-flag
                 reset SEEN flag when bsfilter moves or modifies mails.

       --pop     work as POP proxy.

       --pid-file file
                 specify filename for logging process ID of bsfilter "bsfilter.pid" in bsfilter's
                 home  directory  is  used  by  default  this  function  is valid when "--pop" is
                 specified.

       --tasktray
                 sit in tasktray this is valid with "--pop" on VisualuRuby.

       --pop-server hostname
                 specify hostname of POP server.

       --pop-port number
                 specify port number of POP server. default is 110.

       --pop-proxy-if address
                 specify address of interface which bsfilter listens at default  is  0.0.0.0  and
                 all interfaces are active.

       --pop-proxy-port number
                 specify port number which bsfilter listens at. default is 10110.

       --pop-user name
                 optional. specify username of POP server.

                 bsfilter checks match between value of this options and a name which MUA sends.

                 in case of mismatch, bsfilter closes sockets.

       --pop-proxy-set set[,set...]
                 specify rules of pop proxy.

                 alternative way of pop-server, pop-port, pop-proxy-port and pop-user option.

                 format   of   "set"  is  "pop-server:pop-port:[proxy-interface]:proxy-port[:pop-
                 user]".

                 If proxy-interface is specified and isn't 0.0.0.0 ,  other  interfaces  are  not
                 used.

                 "--pop-proxy-set   192.168.1.1:110::10110"   is  equivalent  with  "--pop-server
                 192.168.1.1 --pop-port 110 --pop-proxy-port 10110".

       --pop-max-size number
                 When mail is longer than the specified number, the mail is not filtered.  When 0
                 is  specified,  all  mails  are  tested  and filtered.  unit is byte. default is
                 50000.

       --ssl     use POP over SSL with --pop option and use IMAP over SSL with --imap option.

       --ssl-cert filename|dirname
                 specify a filename of a certificate of a trusted CA or a name of a directory  of
                 certificates.

       --method g|r|rf

       -m g|r|rf specify  filtering  method.  "rf" by default.  "g" means Paul Graham method, "r"
                 means Gary Robinson method, and "rf" means Robinson-Fisher method.

       --spam-cutoff number
                 specify spam-cutoff value.  0.9 by default for Paul  Graham  method.   0.582  by
                 default for Gary Robinson method.  0.95 by default for Robinson-Fisher method.

       --auto-update

       -a        recognize  mails,  add  them  into  clean  or spam token database and update the
                 probability table.

       --disable-degeneration

       -D        disable degeneration during probability table lookup.

       --disable-utf-8
                 disable utf-8 support.

       --refer-header header[,header...]
                 refer specified headers of mails.

                 bsfilter refers Ufrom, From, To, Cc, Subject, Reply-to,  Return-path,  Received,
                 Content-Transfer-Encoding,  Content-Type,  charset,  and  Content-Disposition by
                 default.

       --refer-all-header
                 refer all headers of mails.

       --ignore-header

       -H        ignore headers of mails.  (it is same as --refer-header "".)

       --ignore-body

       -B        ignore body of mails, except URL or mail address.

       --ignore-plain-text-part
                 ignore plain text part if html part is included in the mail.

       --ignore-after-last-atag
                 ignore text after last "A" tag.

       --mark-in-token characters
                 specify characters which are allowable in a token "*'!" by default.

       --show-process
                 show summary of execution.

       --show-new-token
                 show tokens which are newly added into the token database.

       --mbox    use "unix from" to divide mbox format file.

       --max-mail number
                 reduce token database when the number of stored mails is larger  than  this  one
                 10000 by default.

       --min-mail number
                 reduce token database as if this number of mails are stored 8000 by default.

       --pipe    write  a  mail  to  stdout.  this options is invalid when "--imap" or "--pop" is
                 specified.

       --insert-revision
                 insert "X-Spam-Revision: bsfilter release..." into a mail.

       --insert-flag
                 insert "X-Spam-Flag: Yes" or "X-Spam-Flag: No" into a mail.

       --insert-probability
                 insert "X-Spam-Probability: number" into a mail.

       --header-prefix string
                 insert "X-specified_string-..." headers, instead of "Spam".  (it is  valid  with
                 --insert-flag and/or --insert-probability option.)

       --mark-spam-subject
                 insert "[SPAM] " at the beginning of Subject header.

       --mark-subject-prefix string
                 insert  specified  string, instead of "[SPAM] ".  (it is valid with --mark-spam-
                 subject option.)

       --show-db-status
                 show numbers of tokens and mails in databases and quit.

       --help

       -h        show help message.

       --quiet

       -q        quiet mode.

       --verbose

       -v        verbose mode.

       --debug

       -d        debug mode.

EXAMPLES

       % bsfilter -s ~/Mail/spam/*             ## add spam
       % bsfilter -u -c ~/Mail/job/* ~/Mail/private/*    ## add clean mails and update probability table
       % bsfilter ~/Mail/inbox/1               ## show spam probability

       ## recipe of procmail
       :0 HB
       * ? bsfilter -a
       spam/.

       ## recipe of procmail
       :0 fw
       | bsfilter -a --pipe --insert-flag --insert-probability

SEE ALSO

       http://sourceforge.jp/projects/bsfilter/

AUTHOR

       The original manual is in the bsfilter command it self which is written by NABEYA  Kenichi
       (upstream  author).  This  manual  page  was  transrated  from  the manual by akira yamada
       <akira@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may  be  used  by  others).   Permission  is
       granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General
       Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License  can  be  found  in
       /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

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