Re: [Evolution] spam filtering

[Daniel Gryniewicz <dang gentoo org>]

On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 14:36 +0000, Michelle Murrain wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 14:36 +0100, michael wrote:
> > I'm running Evolution 2.6.3 (recently upgraded). I originally thought my
> > Evo (earlier version) wasn't filtering spam -- but it's just that it
> > took several 100 msgs to be marked as spam before spamassassin kicked
> > in.
> >
> > To see what's happening, you need to look in /var/log/mail.info (etc) --
> > any obvious error messages? any 'spamd' (or 'spamc') messages???
>
> I don't have spamassassin installed - I'm simply using Evolution
> (version 2.10.1 - Ubuntu Fiesty) as a pop client.
>
> Are you saying that I'd have to set up spamassassin on my laptop to
> filter the spam before it gets to evo? That certainly is a possible
> solution, but it would be a drag.

You don't need to set it up, but you need to install it, since evo uses
spamassassin to filter spam.  2.12 will also have the option to use
bogofilter instead of spamassassin.

Daniel