Bogofilter-1.2.4

#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 9.0

### Chapter 11. General Utilities

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# Bogofilter-1.2.4

## 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).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-9.0 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://downloads.sourceforge.net/bogofilter/bogofilter-1.2.4.tar.gz

- Download MD5 sum: 94aee3ced558c2a354547083735f2ba7

- Download size: 1.9 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 16 MB

- Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

### Bogofilter Dependencies

#### Required

Berkeley DB-5.3.28

#### Recommended

Gsl-2.6

#### Optional

SQLite-3.29.0, QDBM and TokyoCabinet

### Note

If you do not install the recommended Gsl-2.6 package then a statically linked shipped version will be used instead.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/bogofilter

## Installation of Bogofilter

### Note

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 &&
    make

This application does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the `root` user:

    make install

## Command Explanations

`--with-database=`: This switch allows you to change the default database from db to either qdbm, sqlite3 or tokyocabinet.

## 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 | used to separate messages into tokens and to test new versions of the lexer.l code.
bogotune | tries to find optimum parameter settings for bogofilter.
bogoupgrade | upgrades bogofilter database to current version.
bogoutil | dumps, loads, and maintains bogofilter database files.

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