Re: [Evolution] Spamassassin, Junk/Not-Junk, Training

[Eric Lambart <ximian nomeaning net>]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 14:09 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> It will work between servers, unless you have a server which doesn't
> support user flags, which some of the popular ones don't.

I'm using Courier, which I'm pretty sure does.  But the problem may be
that I use OfflineIMAP to download mail onto my laptop, and maybe it
doesn't support user flags.  All I know is that the the Evo UI led me to
think the messages were flagged deleted, and OfflineIMAP never downloads
deleted messages, so I did not expect to see them.

I get the feeling that Evolution 1.5's offline-mail support is supposed
to be improved from 1.4's, so maybe I can do without OfflineIMAP
altogether if I upgrade my laptop?  OfflineIMAP's a great program, but
rather clunky and it's unfortunate I've had to use it to be mobile.

> Honestly, why on earth you'd expect the feature to work on an older
> version of evolution where the code doesn't exist is quite beyond me.

Oh, I didn't expect it to "work" at all.  I just didn't expect to see
all those damned messages in my Evolution Inbox since I believed they
were deleted by the spam filter.  My point was, the method of
marking/isolating "junk" mail may not compatible with many people's mail
systems.  I wouldn't be surprised if you get a lot of comments/
complaints from confused users about this once Evolution 2.0 comes out.
Perhaps it should be preemptively FAQ'd.

> And also, if you don't want to use vFolders, just setup filter rules.
> Simple eh.  Evolution supports both modes equally well.  Your rant is
> duly ignored.

I do want to use vFolders.  I use vFolders.  vFolders f'ing rock.  I
love vFolders.  Whatever gave you the idea I didn't like vFolders?  :)
It's just that I like Trash folders (there's no "v" in "Trash Folder").
Sorry if my rant offended you, that was not my intent.  Perhaps I went a
little over the top.  Obviously if you think I don't like vFolders my
words were misunderstood, which is probably due to poor phrasing of my
message.

I do, however use numerous filters as well (and have since Evolution
0.11 or so).  With the volume of mail I receive, they are generally much
more useful to me for organizing mail than vFolders are.

Eric