Re: [Evolution] Re: junk filtering

[Lee Revell <rlrevell joe-job com>]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 10:16 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 21:34 +0100, guenther wrote:
> > > > The question is not whether you can use the buttons. Yes, they are
> > > > always enabled and do "something".
> > > >
> > > > The problem is when you want to use it to learn ham. Apparently it was
> > > > not designed for that, it looks like it was designed to undo a previous
> > > > "junk"-button-press, because only then something actually happens, being
> > > > the bayes database being updated. If you push "not junk" on a random
> > > > message, the message doesn't get learned as "ham".
> > >
> > > So this is a big issue, currently on HEAD, we have either the "Junk" or
> > > the "Not Junk" button, based on wether the messages has been marked junk
> > > or not. We actually needs to discuss this further. Am CCing Srini for
> > > his comments on this.
> >
> > Revert that commit immediately.
> There is no issue in reverting it, but why do we want a 'All the time
> disabled - Not Junk' button on toolbar. It is enabled just in Junk
> Folder. If the junk implementation extends learning not-junk, then it
> would make sense. 

I think that was the point - in order for spam filtering to work at all
there needs to be a "Learn as Not Junk" function that tells the SA
backend "this is what a non-spam message looks like".  Obviously this
has to be enabled in all folders, not just the Junk folder.

Lee