Re: [Evolution] filtering junk mail

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 21:25 -0500, Ben Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 14:35 +0200, guenther wrote:
> > > > > Perhaps this is an obvious question, but I'll ask anyway. I have
> > > > > Evlution 2.2.1.1 set up to filter junk mail. It doesn't - I have to
> > > > > manually filter all of it. Is there a configuration setting I'm missing
> > > > > to have the application do the junk filtering?
> > > >
> > > > Make sure you have enabled "Check incoming mail for junk". You can find
> > > > this option in "Edit | Preferences | Mail Preferences | Junk | General".
> > >
> > > Hi Andre,
> > >
> > > That's exactly what I did. That's why I'm wondering why nothing get's
> > > flagged as junk mail.
> >
> > Do you have SpamAssassin installed?
>
> I do have SA installed, but Evolution doesn't seem to know how to talk
> to it. Am I missing something?

POP3 or IMAP?

FWIW, there are options in the Receiving Options tab for IMAP accounts,
to disable Junk filtering on a per account basis. Checked them?


If all options are set correctly, you need to try debugging the reason.
A first hint could be your SA settings dir. Are those files changed
recently?

  $ ls -l ~/.spamassassin/

How did you install SA? By RPM? Is the spamd daemon running? Does it get
started with the -c option? (see 'man spamd')

Is your SA install sane? If yes, this command should return nothing:

  $ spamassassin --lint

What results do you get when manually feeding a mail to SA for testing?
Save a spammy mail (File / Save as) and see the resulting output of this
command:

  $ spamassassin < spammy.mail | less

And check Evolutions console spewage. Run Evolution from a terminal and
see the output while fetching mails. Does it mention anything about
checking for spam?

Maybe you need to enable debugging for this, I forgot. If the former
doesn't seem to produce the correct output, try this:

  $ CAMEL_DEBUG=all evolution

See [1] for more info in how to debug Evo and [2] for a lot more info
about SA.

HTH

...guenther


[1] http://gnome.org/projects/evolution/bugs.shtml
[2] http://spamassassin.apache.org/


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