Re: [Evolution] Spamfiltering with evolution - NO LONGER WORKS

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 23:15 -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 14:39 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 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
>
> I'm using 2.12.2 in Fedora 8 and I can tell you spam filtering with
> bogofilter does not work at all. (It worked fine under Fedora 6).

Yes, I can confirm that (now using the official RPMs). I now have no
spam filtering. I'm reluctant to go back to SA as I think BF is more
suited to a personal machine. I'll report it to Bugzilla but don't hold
your breath ...

<insert routine call for Evo to support server-side filtering here>

poc