Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r12.2-868

Chapter 11. General Utilities

Bogofilter-1.2.5

Introduction to Bogofilter

The Bogofilter application is a mail filter that classifies mail as spam or ham (non-spam) by a statistical analysis of the message's header and content (body).

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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.

Package Information

Bogofilter Dependencies

Recommended

gsl-2.8, libxml2-2.13.5, and SQLite-3.47.2

Optional

lmdb-0.9.31, xmlto-0.0.29, Berkeley DB (deprecated), QDBM and TokyoCabinet

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If you do not install the recommended gsl-2.8 package then a statically linked shipped version will be used instead.

Installation of Bogofilter

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If you plan to change the version of your database library on an existing installation, or to change to a different database, read the warning at the top of the RELEASE.NOTES file.

Install Bogofilter by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr                \
            --sysconfdir=/etc/bogofilter \
            --with-database=sqlite3      &&
make

To test the results, issue make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--with-database=sqlite3: This switch makes Bogofilter use SQLite-3.47.2 as the database, instead of Berkeley DB.

--with-database={lmdb,qdbm,tokyocabinet}: This switch also allows to use lmdb, qdbm, or tokyocabinet as the database.

Contents

Installed Programs: bf_compact, bf_copy, bf_tar, bogofilter, bogolexer, bogotune, bogoupgrade and bogoutil
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /etc/bogofilter

Short Descriptions

bf_compact

creates a more compact bogofilter working directory with a dump/load cycle

bf_copy

copies a bogofilter working directory to another directory

bf_tar

bundles a bogofilter working directory in tar format and copies it to standard output

bogofilter

is a fast Bayesian spam filter

bogolexer

is used to separate messages into tokens and to test new versions of the lexer.l code

bogotune

attempts to find optimum parameter settings for bogofilter

bogoupgrade

upgrades the bogofilter database to the current version

bogoutil

dumps, loads, and maintains bogofilter database files