Re: [Evolution] Spam Filtering

[Lance Raymond <techy darkerforce com>]

On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 21:35 -0600, Gregg Fowler wrote:
>     On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 13:32 +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: 
> > Lee Revell wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 15:02 -0600, Gregg Fowler wrote:
> > > 
> > >>I just started using Evolution with Ubuntu last Saturday.  While I am
> > >>really happy with the program, I don't believe the Spam Filter is
> > >>working correctly. At first I realized that the Spam Assasin package was
> > >>required and I installed it. The filter still doesn't seem to catch
> > >>much. If anyone could be of help, I would certainly appreciate it. I am
> > >>migrating from Windows XP and am committed to making Evolution work for
> > >>me. Thus far I really like it. I also have the remote filtering box
> > >>checked. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Known bug, currently the spam filtering implementation does not work, as
> > > spamassassin does not start to work until it has learned 200 non-spam
> > > messages, and Evo has no way to teach SA what a non-spam message ("ham")
> > > looks like.
> > > 
> > > You can work around it by using sa-learn on the command line.  See the
> > > spamassassin docs for more info.
> > Once I got spamassassin installed correctlty and the spamd daemon was 
> > running and I had the evolution spam plugin turned on, I found that 
> > evolution started detecting spam very reliably after I had manually 
> > labelled +- 100 messages as spam.
> > Rod
> > > 
> > > Lee
> > > 
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> >
> >     
>     
>     Thanks, I'll have to figure out the work around you are talking about. I opened terminal earlier and tried the commands, but was unsure how to pinpoint specific emails and even got the "ham" command messed up. I'll keep working on it.
>     Gregg 


    **  Greg, had the same issues here, but as they said above, once you start getting sa trained, it works great.  I made a local folder in one of my accounts called it _SPAM_.  I then rather than hitting the Junk icon, manually moved them over into that folder and ever few day's jumped to a terminal, and just did the following;
sa-learn --spam /home/lance/.evolution/ sa-learn --spam .evolution/mail/imap/techy darkerforce com/folders/INBOX/subfolders/_SPAM_/

hit enter and wait (be patient), and after a few minutes or so, you get a reply with a spam score etc.  Little by little you will start to check your evo Junk folder and more & more msgs will go there.

As for the other post about the local.cf file, not sure, I looked at mine, it's just 4 lines of comments so NE word on how to change the score is appreciated as well.

lance



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