Re: [Evolution-hackers] spam filtering

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 16:52, Joe Shaw wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 16:17, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > this is where things are unclear:
> > 
> > when will these imap messages be fully downloaded? when the user opens
> > the message? (normally an imap message is not fully downloaded until the
> > user clicks on it in the message-list)
> > 
> > or will we now just always download entire messages when the user opens
> > an imap folder? this would suck.
> 
> Isn't this what we do for filters which rely on the contents of the body
> already?  (either a "body contains" or a "pipe to program" now, right?)

yes, but only if that body-matches (or pipe-to-program) filter gets run.
at which point you're asking for it anyway... these are also not used by
default :-)

spam filtering will be.

> 
> Mail.app only marks messages as junk that it downloads, and it allows
> you to set an option on whether to download it on a per-account basis. 
> The options are to keep "all messages and their attachments", "all
> messages, omit attachments", "only messages i've read", or none.
> 
> Also there's an option of whether to store junk messages on the server.
> 
> Joe
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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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