Re: [Evolution] Spamfiltering with evolution - NO LONGER WORKS

[Rick Bilonick <rab nauticom net>]

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 14:39 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 09:43 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 23:42 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > I have several questions about how spamfiltering works with evolution.
> > >
> > > 1) Can evolution use both bogofilter and spamassassin concurrently? Or
> > > is it only possible to select between on of them.
> > > I think if the later is the case one should use spamassissin as it's
> > > more powerfull?
> >
> > No, you can only use one or the other.  Neither is really "more
> > powerful", since evo only uses the bayesian filtering from SA, which is
> > what bogofilter does as well.
>
> AFAIK when using Spamassassin Evo calls "spamc" to report spam/ham to a
> background "spamd" daemon. There are no spamc options to tell SA to only
> use Bayesian filtering.
>
> OTOH I regularly used to have problems with multiple "spamd" daemons
> being started, especially when Evo would crash or hang. These got on my
> nerves so I switched to Bogofilter, which is indeed faster, and also
> doesn't use a client-server structure like SA.
>
> This worked fine until I recompiled my own copy of Evo 2.12. The
> Junk/Not Junk buttons work as before, but Evo *never* calls Bogofilter
> on its own, so effectively I now have no spam filtering at all (I also
> made sure the BF plugin is installed in the right place, just in case).
> I mentioned this on the list a while back but no-one followed up. Maybe
> it will all sort itself out when I can use Fedora 8 and official
> packages.
>
> poc

I'm using 2.12.2 in Fedora 8 and I can tell you spam filtering with
bogofilter does not work at all. (It worked fine under Fedora 6).

Evolution seems to lose advantages it used to have by the day. When they
changed the Exchange server here from 2003 to 2007 about a week ago,
Evolution no longer works - it can't access Exchange 20007 - no one on
the list seems particularly alarmed by this. One would think that
eventually, there will only be Exchange 2007 servers.

Supposedly a newer version of Evolution will work with 2007 (or there
will be a new plugin) but no one on the list seems to know when if ever
this will become available. (I saw a post for March or April saying it
would be available soon. Then another post in Oct saying the same
thing.)

Rick B.