Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.5/2.0 and Spamassassin

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 22:14 +0100, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> I haven't upgraded from Evo 1.4.6 yet, and probably won't until 2.0 is
> released. But I am running spamd and am using procmail to filter
> messages through spamc:
>
>         # send mail through spamassassin
>         :0fw
>         | /usr/bin/spamc
>
> All of my procmail recipes (there aren't many) just dump the filtered
> mail into /var/spool/mail/darren where Evolution fetches it from and
> filters it into various folders.
>
> Now I was about to start tweaking my procmail recipes when I realised
> that of course I'll soon (I hope) be upgrading to Evolution 2.0 and it
> also filters messages through spamc. What I wanted to know in advance,
> before I start tweaking my procmail recipes, is whether you can still
> use Evo 1.5/2.0's built-in spam filtering, and especially the ability to
> mark messages as spam or as not-spam and have them run through sa-learn,
> whilst switching off Evo's running spamc on every message (because that
> will already be done by procmail).
>
> In other words, is the configuration option in Evo 1.5/2.0 an
> all-or-nothing turn spam filtering on or off, or are there more
> fine-grained configuration options?

In this case I would suggest using procmail to do the spam checking and get it to set the spam status in the header.

Then in evolution, don't use junk filtering but use a manual header-check filter for the spam status header to set the junk status on the message; or just move the spam to a special folder.  The 'mark junk' buttons etc will still operate even with junk filtering stuff turned off, and run the learning stuff to tune things.

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "born to die, live to work, it's all downhill from here" Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer