Re: [Evolution] Spamfiltering with evolution

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 09:43 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 23:42 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I have several questions about how spamfiltering works with evolution.
> >
> > 1) Can evolution use both bogofilter and spamassassin concurrently? Or
> > is it only possible to select between on of them.
> > I think if the later is the case one should use spamassissin as it's
> > more powerfull?
>
> No, you can only use one or the other.  Neither is really "more
> powerful", since evo only uses the bayesian filtering from SA, which is
> what bogofilter does as well.

AFAIK when using Spamassassin Evo calls "spamc" to report spam/ham to a
background "spamd" daemon. There are no spamc options to tell SA to only
use Bayesian filtering.

OTOH I regularly used to have problems with multiple "spamd" daemons
being started, especially when Evo would crash or hang. These got on my
nerves so I switched to Bogofilter, which is indeed faster, and also
doesn't use a client-server structure like SA.

This worked fine until I recompiled my own copy of Evo 2.12. The
Junk/Not Junk buttons work as before, but Evo *never* calls Bogofilter
on its own, so effectively I now have no spam filtering at all (I also
made sure the BF plugin is installed in the right place, just in case).
I mentioned this on the list a while back but no-one followed up. Maybe
it will all sort itself out when I can use Fedora 8 and official
packages.

poc