Re: [Evolution] disabling junk plugin

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2014-06-27 at 19:03 -0400, Carl Schaefer wrote:
> With 3.12.3 on Arch linux, when I mark a message as junk (or not junk)
> an error box displays over part of the message pane, saying:
>
> Error while Unknown background operation.
> Failed to spawn Bogofilter (/usr/bin/bogofilter --register-spam --unicode=yes): Failed to execute child 
> process "/usr/bin/bogofilter" (No such file or directory)
>
> I don't have Bogofilter or SpamAssassin installed, but unfortunately on
> the Junk tab in Mail Preferences there is not a "none" option for "Junk
> filtering software".  If I use dconf-editor to set
> org.gnome.evolution.mail.junk-default-plugin to "none" the error box
> stops being displayed (at least until the Junk tab is opened again, at
> which point the value of junk-default-plugin resets to "Bogofilter").
>
> Should there be a way to disable the junk plugin, even when evolution is
> built to support it?  I use the Junk operation to quickly refile
> messages (I process them in bulk later), so IMO it's still useful even
> without a plugin.

Preferences->Mail Preferences->Junk->Check incoming messages for Junk.

Using the manual Junk button without having a junk processor installed
is somewhat unusual. You might consider marking messages for later
followup (Shift-Ctrl-G) or using labels.

poc