Re: [Evolution] spam filtering via evo with an alternate mailbox?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

you probably have to just do ctrl-a ctrl-y to kick it off.  if you've got a big inbox, it could take a while to run.

filtering will only be applied automatically, when told to, for recent messages.  its kind of server dependent what recent means (and kind of actually badly specified too), but if you're using the one client on a given server it should work fairly reliably.

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 16:59 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> First off, let me say, my incoming mailbox, which I've switched to
> ~/mail/mybox, is huge.  I'm trying to set a good example for my
> endusers, by not leaving this large quantity of mail in my maildrop,
> /var/mail/strombrg.
>
> We used to have antispam via spamassassin on our mailserver, but we had
> to turn it off, because it was loading the poor old machine up so much
> that it had ypserv problems.  Why ypserv is so flakey is a story for
> another night.
>
> Anyway, I set up a filter which "Pipes message to shell command"
> spamassassin -e (with a hard path), and refiles the message if there's a
> nonzero exit status to my "evospam" folder.
>
> It's not working.  I'm bummed.  I get HUGE quantities of spam.
>
> Anyway, if I save one of these new spam messages into /tmp/msg, and then
> run spamassassin -e < /tmp/msg (with a hard path again), I get an exit
> status of 5, which would seem to be what evo needs to do its thing, no?
>
> I also clicked "tools/settings/receiving options/apply filters to INBOX
> on this server".
>
> Do I have to leave my mail in my maildrop(/var/mail/strombrg) for this
> to work properly?
>
> I'm using an sslified uwimapd, if that makes any difference.
>
> I'm eager to switch to dovecot, possibly with maildir, but I have to
> find the time somewhere.
>
> TIA.

Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> Ximian Evolution and Free Software Developer

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