Re: [Evolution] Spam Filtering

[Gregg Fowler <greggfowler gmail com>]

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