Re: [Evolution] How to handle unsolicited e-mails with evolution 2.32.2 ?

[Thomas Prost <thomas prost prosts info>]

Am Samstag, den 26.11.2011, 19:10 -0430 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan:

> Getting back to the question: under Preferences->Mail Preferences->Junk
> there's a drop-down menu to select which spam filter is the default. It
> also checks that the appropriate binary is installed. It's my
> understanding that Evo will only use the default plugin, even if both
> are installed and selected in the main Plugins menu. However this
... so thought I, but it isnÂt just too much work to uncheck the unused
filter ;-) (if only those were problems ...)
> applies only to what Evo itself is doing. Your mail may already have
> been marked as spam on its way to Evo, either at the mail server or in a
I configured the server, not to do so - why else would I want local spam
detection ???
> mail fetcher in your own machine (if you use one). Many servers have
> SpamAssassin installed, and they could be marking messages as spam. In
> that case, if "Check custom headers for junk" is selected, any matching
> messages will *not* be passed through the default plugin, they'll just
> be assumed to be spam.
WeÂre coming to the point:
> However your problem seems to be the reverse, i.e. you're getting spam
> in your inbox. In that case, it's a strong indicator that the filter has
> not learned enough to distinguish between ham and spam. The way to deal
> with that is to train it. The exact method varies according to the
> filter, but with Bogofilter (the one I use), the easiest way to to save
> a bunch of spam messages (the more the better but around 100 is a good
> number) in an mbox file and run "bogofilter -M -s < file". Do the same
> with a bunch of non-spam messages (using '-n' instead of '-s') and
> you'll have an initial corpus that Bogofilter can use.
As mentioned before, I donÂt need an initialized filter.
IÂd be glad if it would work after being presented 100 spam by the
evolutuion-built-in classificator (that wadded paper thing) - but it
doesnÂt.
So the question is: How can I check, if bogofilter is learning at all ?

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Best,
Thomas