Re: [Evolution] Junk mail and spamd

["Scott T. Hildreth" <shild sbcglobal net>]

On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 14:12 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 21:46 -0500, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 11:34 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
> > > I have all the junk mail stuff active and have been marking spam for the
> > > last 2 months now, but still most of the spam comes through.
> > > Loads of the stuff is from the same place, so filtering should not be a
> > > problem.
> >
> > Same here, and my Bayes db is almost 2 years old.  I must have marked
> > at least 50 to almost a 100 with "hilburn" in the subject line and they 
> > still get through.  I am running a experiment right now, I cleared out
> > the junk folder.  I am not marking any message as "Junk", I move it to 
> > a Spam folder I created.  And then I am letting Spamassassin mark the
> > messages that are determined to be junk.  Right now there are 276 in the
> > Junk folder and 227 that I moved to the temp Spam folder.  I have emails
> > forwarded from work to my home server and some of them have the "SPAM"
> > subject re-write and they still don't get marked as spam.
>
> This is ultimately why I moved to bogofilter over spamassassin as my
> mail filtering setup.  We (Gentoo) optionally patch bogofilter in place
> of spamassassin as the spam filter plugin, because you cannot have more
> than one spam filter plugin at a time.  The patch for 2.7/2.8 is
> available here if people are interested:
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~dang/evolution-2.7.3-bf-junk.patch.gz

   Do you have an updated patch?  I really want to try using bogofilter.  
   I have hit that cycle where I am marking half, if not more, of my 
   Inbox as junk with spamassassin.  

   Is the patch the same and all I would need to do is change 2.7.3 to
   2.8.1.1?  

   Thanks.

> I've been using it for over a year and a half now, and it has a much
> much better hit rate than spamassassin had, it is much quicker to
> filter, and I don't periodically have to killall spamd.  I know there's
> at least one other bogofilter plugin floating around out there.
>
> Daniel
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Scott T. Hildreth <shild sbcglobal net>