Re: [Evolution] spam filter or not to spam filter

[michael <cs networkingnewsletter org uk>]

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 10:33 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 10:12 +0100, michael wrote:
> > When I first start evolution and it fetches new mail from 6 accounts, it
> > seems that often not all new emails are checked for spam. For example,
> > if I later select a bunch of new emails and manually "check for junk"
> > then indeed many of the new emails are flagged as spam.
> >
> > I'm running Evolution 2.6.3 under Debian (seems to happen for both
> > 'etch' and 'unstable')
>
> I seem to write this a lot here! :
>
> Only "new" mail is filtered - "new" is not the same as "unread".  If
> another program or email application has already "seen" the mail, then
> that mail is no longer "new" according to the IMAP specs, and so since
> it isn't flagged as "new", Evo doesn't filter it.  The "other program"
> may be another email application or web mail interface, or it may even
> be a mail notification applet somewhere.
>
> P.


Daniel & Pete,
Firstly thanks for the replies.
But to clarify, I'm not talking about shutting down Evo at all. I'm
talking about (eg) when I first fire it up in the morning. What I seeing
is Evo (inc spam filter) running. No other web browsers reading the
email. So I would think the unread email is indeed new... so shouldn't
it be being filtered?

I was wondering if it was spamd that somehow was either timing out or
only checking a max number of emails or something like that... but I'm
not sure how to check this in order to eliminate that...

Thanks, Michael