Re: [Evolution] junk mail filter

[Reid Thompson <reid thompson ateb com>]

carpetnailz wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 03:12 -0600, Sankar P wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 08:10 -0400, carpetnailz wrote:
> > > I'm using Evolution 2.10.1 with Ubuntu Feisty. 
> > >
> > > I'm getting several junk emails a day that all look similar to me (e.g.,
> > > they all have some random name in the "to" field with my email address
> > > in angle brackets). Yet the junk filter is not catching them.
> > >
> > > Under Edit-Preferences-Mail Preferences-Junk, I have "Check incoming
> > > mail for junk" checked. Should I also have "Include remote tests"
> > > checked? What exactly does that add to the process? 
> > >
> > > Is there anything else I should do, or have these jerks just figured a
> > > good way around the Evolution junk mail filter?
> > For junk filter to work, you need to train both SPAM and HAM. Probably
> > you missed it.
> >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > nails
> I'm confused. First, my old computer running Evolution 2.2.2 and FC3
> seems to just handle junk on its own without either Spamassassin or
> Bogofilter installed or any other junk plugin. When I mark something as
> junk on that system, I see a message at the bottom that says "Learning
> junk." I don't get that with my current setup, Evolution 2.10.1 and
> Ubuntu Feisty. 
>    Second, I've installed Spamassassin, but it doesn't seem to be doing
> anything. Under Plugin manager I have spamassassin checked and
> bogofilter unchecked.
>
> I didn't do any "training" of anything called Spam and Ham in my old
> system. How do I do that? 
Not sure how you do it for Spamassassin, but for bogofilter see 
http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/faq.shtml#training

I imagine Spamassassin has something similar