Re: [Evolution] Message deletion bug?

[Des Dougan <des DouganConsulting com>]

On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 10:49 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 21:35 -0800, Des Dougan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 15:12 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > [I tried this on 2.4.1 and 2.5.1 with the same result.]
> > >
> > > First some background which may or may no be relevant. The way I handle
> > > spam is for a server-side SpamAssassin process to file suspect messages
> > > in a SPAM folder. For false negatives (i.e. undetected spam) I manually
> > > move the offending messages to a subfolder of SPAM and periodically
> > > process it by logging in to the server.
> > >
> > > Processing involves a little shell script on the server which calls
> > > sa-learn on the contents of the subfolder.
> > >
> > > After that, I delete the contents of the subfolder using Evo. I then
> > > expunge the subfolder to clean it out.
> >
> > Patrick,
> >
> > This sounds neat - it's bugged me for a while that I'm processing spam
> > in two places (I also have SA on my server). Would you mind posting your
> > script - I'd like to try it on my set-up?
>
> It's pretty specific to my situation, and almost embarrasingly simple,
> but here goes:
>
> <script>
> #!/bin/bash
> # Process spam
>
> cd ~poc
> cp /var/spool/imap/p/user/poc/SPAM/spam/*. SCRATCH/
> chown poc.prof SCRATCH/*.
> su -l -c "sa-learn --spam SCRATCH/*." poc
> rm -f SCRATCH/*.
> </script>
>
> Notes:
>
> 1) The IMAP server is Cyrus, so messages are individual files and they
> belong to the Cyrus user. This means you need root (or Cyrus) login on
> the server and the script has to be run as root. However SA has to run
> as *you* so it'll keep its hash tables specific to your spam. Therefore
> you have to copy the messages and change their ownership, then change
> personality to you to run SA.
>
> 2) I didn't bother including an option for --ham since SA hasn't given
> me a false positive in over a year. YMMV.
>
> 3) You could change the "cp" to a "mv", but in any case you need to
> resync Evo as it won't notice automatically (or maybe it will, opinions
> vary). I don't do it that way as I'm keeping a corpus of old spam in a
> separate folder and I use Evo to move messages into it. This also
> applies to spam detected by SA, once I've looked it over for false
> positives (increasingly a waste of time IMHO).
>
> Anyway, best of luck :-)


Patrick,

Many thanks. I'll try to get some time this weekend to play with it.

Des
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