Re: [Evolution] Help me switch to evolution

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 10:36 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Totally agree (I use SpamAssassin on the server), however Evo
> currently has no way of controlling it. AFAIK, neither does any other
> MUA.

Some MUAs have a way of graphically editing Sieve filters. Some are
capable of feeding mails to sa-learn. That shouldn't be hard, and is
about all you really need, surely?

I haven't looked into it much because I'm perfectly happy editing
filters in a text editor, and because I don't do per-user Bayesian
filtering. It's better to reject mail at SMTP time than to accept it and
then _later_ decide you don't like it, and be left with the choice of
either silently binning it or generating a bounce to a potentially
innocent third party. And if you run SA at SMTP time, the message may
have multiple recipients at multiple domains, some of which aren't
local. So it's hard to do anything per-user, unless you play cunning
tricks with giving 4xx deferrals for any second and subsequent user who
has different SA settings to the first.

Running system-wide SA (and other heuristics and greylisting etc) seems
to be perfectly sufficient without anything but the automatically
learned Bayesian filtering, so I haven't really looked hard at getting
feedback from the MUA to SA.

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dwmw2