Re: [Evolution] Spam Filtering

[Rod Butcher <rbutcher hyenainternet com>]

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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