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bogofilter


Information about the package, bogofilter, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The bogofilter package is designed for, Fast anti-spam filtering by Bayesian statistical analysis.


Package Name:

bogofilter

Summary:

Fast anti-spam filtering by Bayesian statistical analysis

Description:

Bogofilter is a Bayesian spam filter. In its normal mode of operation, it takes an email message or other text on standard input, does a statistical check against lists of "good" and "bad" words, and returns a status code indicating whether or not the message is spam. Bogofilter is designed with fast algorithms (including Berkeley DB system), coded directly in C, and tuned for speed, so it can be used for production by sites that process a lot of mail.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.2.4

Release:

1.el6

Size:

338 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2



Handy Yum Commands for bogofilter


Control the bogofilter package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install bogofilter

This command will install bogofilter on the server.

yum remove bogofilter

This command will un-install bogofilter on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove bogofilter, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove bogofilter

This command will un-install bogofilter on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove bogofilter when using the -y flag.

yum update bogofilter

This command will update bogofilter to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove bogofilter, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update bogofilter

This command will update bogofilter to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove bogofilter when using the -y flag.

yum info bogofilter

This command will show you core information about the bogofilter package.

yum deplist bogofilter

This command will show you the dependencies for bogofilter. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update bogofilter

This command will check if there is an update waiting on bogofilter. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.