bogofilter-0.96.2 - new current release

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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 10:26:37 CST

Bogofilter is a mail filter that classifies email as spam or ham
(non-spam) by a statistical analysis of the message's header and content
(body). The program is able to learn from the user's classifications
and corrections.

The statistical technique is known as the Bayesian technique and its use
for spam was described by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For Spam".
Gary Robinson, in his weblog Rants, suggests some refinements for
improved discrimination between spam and ham. Bogofilter's primary
algorithm uses the f(w) parameter and the Fisher inverse chi-square
technique that he describes.

Bogofilter is run by an MDA script to classify an incoming message as
spam or ham (using wordlists stored by BerkeleyDB). Bogofilter provides
processing for plain text and html, supports multi-part mime message
with decoding of base64, quoted-printable, and uuencoded text and
ignores attachments, such as images.

Bogofilter is written in C. Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD,
Solaris, OS X, HP-UX, AIX, RISC OS, OS/2, ...

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Files are available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bogofilter for
download.

Here are the md5sums for the release:

3e7329f46a11ed4614f283bf8159114f bogofilter-0.96.2-1.i586.rpm
3cc9959f0ff0eb0e8b34f41b73529d14 bogofilter-0.96.2-1.src.rpm
30b66f7cf0abfb3dbd51ad07894e3505 bogofilter-0.96.2.tar.bz2
7a42ac23b7db1b85b2f09e3030bb0f1d bogofilter-0.96.2.tar.gz
ad0a2d03f16a2e1200289b9141bb9ea5 bogofilter-static-0.96.2-1.i586.rpm

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                                BOGOFILTER NEWS
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        !!!!!!!! READ THE RELEASE.NOTES !!!!!!!!

        Sections headed '[Incompat <version>]' and '[Major <version>]'
        are particularly important. They describe changes that are
        incompatible with earlier releases or are significantly
        different.

        !!!!!!!! READ THE RELEASE.NOTES !!!!!!!!

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0.96.2 2005-09-25 (a.k.a. 1.0.0-rc2)

        2005-09-25

        * SQLite3 - no longer using EXCLUSIVE in BEGIN TRANSACTION as
          it seems unnecessary and it causes trouble on MAC OSX

        2005-09-19

        * Require sqlite 3.2.6 and print warning if older version installed, to
          avoid people running into critical bugs in older sqlite3 versions.
          The test can be defeated by setting the environment variable
          BF_USE_OLD_SQLITE to any value. Also warn on 32-bit machines.

        2005-09-16

        * Fix bogus t.maint failures on some systems that don't use bash for
          /bin/sh (for instance, FreeBSD).

        2005-09-11

        * Resurrected atexit() code to ensure databases have been
          closed (needed for rare cases on RISC OS).

        2005-09-07

        * Perform unicode conversion after base64 and quoted-printable
          decoding. (Thanks to Mikhael Zabaluev for the patch)

        2005-09-06

        * (sqlite3 based builds only) Print reminder to register tokens before
          scoring if preparing the SELECT statement fails.

        * Avoid "obsolete option -I- used, please use -iquote instead" nagging
          from GCC version 4. (Heck, autoconf has even reached include lines
          that worked for ages.)

        2005-09-05

        * Replace mime stack by linked list (to correct gentoo bug #69893).
        * Fix configure's --with-included-gsl option. (Thanks to
          Torsten Veller for the patch)

0.96.1 2005-09-05 (a.k.a. 1.0.0-rc1)

        2005-08-24

        * Fix incompatibility with SunOS make(1S), adding a missing trailing
          backslash character to src/Makefile.am.

        2005-08-17

        * Update RISC OS versions of Makefile and config.h

0.96.0 2005-08-15

        2005-08-14

        * When directory name is argument for bogoutil's dump/load
          option, use "wordlist.db" to avoid a sigsegv.

        * Remove support for TDB, the Trivial Database.

        2005-08-05

        * db_lock.c: rename "cell_t" to "bf_cell_t" to avoid clashing with
          IRIX's cell_t. Reported by Daichi Kawahata.

        * configure.ac: MIPS doesn't have extended FP precisiopn. Patch by
          Daichi Kawahata.

        2005-08-03

        * bogotune - Restored code for recommending db_cachesize value.

        2005-07-10

        * Bogofilter now complains if sqlite 3.2.1 or older is used on a
          machine with a word width greater than 32 bits, but tries to proceed.
          It may however crash with SIGBUS as sqlite 3.2.1 performs unaligned
          64-bit accesses. sqlite 3.2.2 or newer is strongly recommended.

        2005-07-04

        * Updated history of stable releases (file RELEASES).

        2005-07-03

        * Switched t.encoding test to use the POSIX utility cksum,
          rather than OS-specific utilities such as md5sum or md5.

0.95.2 2005-06-30
        2005-07-08 - Promoted to Stable Release

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