Re: [Evolution] Built-in spam filtering? (Spam grading is better)

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 21:56, Jim Frost wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 21:46, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > just to get this thread to stop, since it's going no where...
> >
> > Ximian is considering implementing a bayesian spam filter within
> > Evolution itself. Management is pushing for it to be implemented for
> > Evolution 1.4 but I seriously doubt Michael and I will have the time to
> > do it in so short an amount of time, but that doesn't mean it won't make
> > it into the version *after* 1.4 (or a version shortly after?).
>
> That is terrific to hear.  What kind of timeframe is 1.4,

feature freeze is in 2 weeks

>  and what are
> the odds that things might get done faster if you got some help with the
> initial implementation?

given that the timeframe is 2 weeks, I'm thinking that the odds aren't
much better since any aditional helpers would have to learn the codebase
in a jiffy :-)

we also need to finish porting evolution to gnome 2.0 :-)

> I don't know that I have time to help, but I might ... and if my choice
> is to spend time setting up procmail et al in a one-off versus
> contributing my time towards a solution that lots of people can use,
> I'll pick the latter.  Though I really hate the idea of going back to
> C++ :-).

it's actually implemented in c, not c++.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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