[Evolution] Spam Filter -- I need volunteers

[Marco Tabini <marcot tabini ca>]

Hello All,

I've written a statistical spam filter for Evolution. It works by
analyzing the e-mail that you consider spam and eventually learning to
automatically filter it into a special folder. Because it doesn't use a
set of "rigid" rules, it should theoretically adapt dynamically, without
requiring any future reinstall or updates.

The filter has been running on my system for a couple of weeks now and
it filters almost all the spam that I get. It takes a very conservative
approach to filtering, preferring not to filter a spam than to discard a
good message, and even then only about one spam message every 200 gets
through on my end, and the performance is getting better thanks to the
fact that the system is learning.

Given that it seems to work on my end, I'm looking for a few volunteers
to beta test it. Essentially, I would ask you to install it and let your
e-mail be filtered by it. Throughout the process, I would ask your
comments on its functionality. There is, undeniably, a small risk that
the filter will wreck havoc in your mailbox. It hasn't on mine, but I
can't exclude it. Also, depending on how you install the filter, it
might take a while for it to be perfectly finetuned to your e-mail
traffic (less than a week, depending on the amount of messages you
receive).

Because I'll be distributing binaries only, I need someone who is using
Linux. The filter makes use of labels, so you should not be using those
either.

Please drop me a message if you're interested.

Cheers,


Marco