Re: [Evolution] Wish list: Append file when saving a message.

["Matthew A. R. Sherian" <mars mars-tmc hq themunicenter com>]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Guenther wrote:

> > I use spam assassin and like to teach it's bayseian DB with the sa-learn script.
> > However I would sometime like to gather together sets of spam from different
> > mail folders in one file and process it once. As such I would like to request
> > this feature. I have sunmitted this as bug 48014. If this should be filed with
> > the gnome folk let me know.
>
> > From a post by me some days ago:
>
> --- snip ---
> An easy way is (works with local SA and SA on IMAP servers): Create a
> folder SPAM and move all SPAM messages to this folder. You can report
> this as SPAM to SA (manually or automatic and periodically) using SA
> built in features:
>
> $ sa-learn --spam --showdots --mbox <SPAM.mbox>

alias spam='sa-learn --showdots --norebuild --spam --mbox spam'

is a little thing I've got setup...

> Needed options and the actual name of the mbox file (or, in case of IMAP
> maybe not mbox) depend on your setup. See 'man sa-learn' for the
> options.
> --- snip ---
>
> Seems, you are referring to this functionality. There is no problem
> doing this for more than one folder. Just make sure, there is only SPAM
> in that folder.

Everything does go off to one folder, however I use Maildir on my server. So
each message is, of course, a separate file.

> Regarding your bug http://bugs.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=48014 :
>
> The default format of storing mails in Evolution *is* mbox. Drag-n-drop
> to a dedicated SPAM folder seems a lot more easy than saving every
> single SPAM to disk to me...

I do like to confirm that there are no false positives first. As for saving mail
sets to a disk. It would also work for say, saving My lists directory structure
to a Mbox file for archival. (I know most lists are archived on the 'net, this
is just an example)

> Better integrated ways are currently discussed for the development of
> future Evolution 2.0 version.
>
> HTH
>
> ...guenther