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

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 13:16 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 10:47 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 09:47 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > I've upgraded to 2.12.3 (evolution-2.12.3-1.fc8 and
> > > evolution-data-server-1.12.3-1.fc8).
> > >
> > > Junk filtering still doesn't work. The /usr/bin/bogofilter is still
> > > not being called.
> >
> > Hrm.  This seems to me to be either a build issue on Fedora or some
> > problem in your Evo configuration files.
> >
> > Unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with Evo's plugins mechanism to
> > give you any hints about further ways to debug this.  Probably anything
> > more detailed would require a rebuild from source to be really useful
> > anyway.
> >
> >
> > One thing you might try is to create a brand new user account on your
> > system, then log in to that account and configure Evo there.  See if you
> > get any invocations of bogofilter then.  This is obviously unpleasant in
> > a few ways, but it'll help to figure out whether it's a problem in the
> > gconf settings or something in ~/.evolution, etc.
> >
> > Obviously be sure to shut down Evo in your original home directory first
> > so that it doesn't conflict.
>
> Great minds think alike :-) I was just about to do this. I'll report
> back when I have anything new.

I set up a new user account and configured Evo, after first shutting
down my normal instance (with --force-shutdown). I initialized
bogofilter to make sure its wordlist.db file existed, then sent myself a
test message from Gmail. On receiving the message in Evo, I hit the Junk
button and got the "filtering messages" status line. I then checked the
wordlist.db file and my man-in-the-middle BF logger.

Both show the BF filter being called.

So the problem is somewhere in my Gconf or .evolution. Where do I start
looking? One interesting detail is that in the new account the
Preferences->Junk dialogue now shows Bogofilter and the message about
the executable existing, whereas with my existing account this info is
mangled. I commented on this in Bugzilla, including a screenshot, but
no-one has answered.

poc