Re: [Evolution] howto do junk?

[Eric Lambart <ximian nomeaning net>]

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 09:28 +0200, Alessio Bragadini wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 11:21 -0500, Eric Lambart wrote:
>
> > If you've ever used it at all before installing Evolution 1.5+ you may
> > want to make sure no one else is starting it except Evolution, and you
> > may also want to consider removing your ~/.spamassassin directory
>
> And why? I don't see any logical reason behind this advice, unless
> Evolution calls spamassassin in some strange way.

Because the existing settings might be somehow conflicting with the way
Evolution chooses to do things.  Also because it's a simple way to
eliminate such a possibility--"mv .spamassassin .spamassassin.old" and
start Evolution.  Doesn't help?  OK, put your old directory back.  No
harm done.

Eliminating possible sources of error or conflict to reduce the
variables involved is one of the *most* logical ways to approach a
problem.

Of course, if you're an SA expert you may have better advice that skips
right to the root of the problem.  Feel free to share. =)

> In fact, I've just kept using my installed spamassassin (i.e. I've done
> nothing) and Evolution is building nicely on my existing database. It is
> *much* faster and more reliable than the previous solution when
> spamassassin was called by Evolution 1.4 using a shell command in a
> filter.
>
> I am using Fedora Core 2 Linux, with Evolution 2.0.[0,1,2] from the
> Fedora Core 3 development and a spamassassin-2.64-2.1.fc2 from the DAG
> repository.
>
> > FWIW, I've never used spamassassin except for the one included in
> > Evolution.
>
> Honestly, a more experienced opinion would be helpful then.

Haha.  Hey, do you see one floating around here?

Eric

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