Re: [Evolution] Spam Improvements & Default spam filter

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 09:56 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> Guys,
>
> We have done some pretty good improvements to SPAM filter in Evolution
> 2.24
>
> (*) White list support
> (*) Header based filtering (You can check for headers set by SpamPal or
> SpamAssasin or any such server side spam headers hints). It will be a
> lot faster, as you decide a spam without downloading the message.
>
> Currently we are having SpamAssassin as the default junk filter and I
> remember lots of people having issues with SA (interms of speed,
> resources it occupies, memory, processes etc). IIRC some distros already
> use bogofilter as the default junk filter.
>
> I'm proposing to make Bogofilter as the default junk filter for
> Evolution. Any thoughts to it?

I say go for it. My impression is that SA is more suitable for
server-side filtering, and given that many providers are already using
it, it makes sense to have a different filter on the client side,
especially as it's relatively lightweight and seems less buggy.

poc