Re: [Evolution] suddenly junking good mail

[Carpet Nailz <carpetnailz researchintegration org>]

On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 18:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 18:52 -0400, Carpet Nailz wrote:
> > After years of working fine, Evolution (2.22.1.1 on openSUSE 11.0)
> > suddenly began putting email from my wife (coming from the same mail
> > server that I get email from) in junk. I haven't changed any of the
> > Evolution settings. Anyone have any idea what might cause this? And how
> > to fix it--marking the junked email as "Not junk" doesn't seem to
> > prevent its happening again with other mail from my wife.
>
> Open Edit->Preferences->Mail Preferences and select the Junk tab. What
> are the settings? e.g. do you use either of the anti-spam plugins, and
> if so which one? (they are Spamassassin and Bogofilter).
>
> If so, you need to check that the appropriate spam filter is working
> correctly. This is outside the scope of Evo itself (it just calls the
> filter). You may have a corrupt spam/ham database.
>
> Also, are your Receiving Mail options set to take into account anti-spam
> headers that may be set by your email provider ("Check Custom Header for
> Junk")? If so, take a look at the full headers for the problem messages
> and see if you provider is doing something it shouldn't (you can always
> try turning the option off to test it).
>
> poc
Thanks for the tips. I need to get more familiar with Bogofilter.

Nailz 


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