Re: [Evolution] Spam filter not moving spam to spam folder anymore.

[Christopher Marlow <Evolution cwm030 com>]

On Sat, 2020-10-24 at 17:40 -0700, Gary Koskenmaki wrote:
>
I had this same problem using bogofilter.  My solution was to install
> the evolution-plugin-spamassassin and spamassassin
packages from my Linux distro  and then go to Evolution Preferences-
> > Mail Preferences->Junk and enable Spam Assassin in
place of bogofilter on the following option: junk filtering
> software:.  I still get a few emails that the filter doesn't
catch but it does catch most of them after marking junk mail as
> junk.  

I hadn't had a piece of junk mail in years as my email provider was
> stopping all junk mail, so these are pretty
sophisticated junk mail senders.  I'm not surprised that bogofilter
> was having problems with them but enabling
spamassassin seems to work pretty well.  

If you run Windows I have no idea what extra packages you would have
> install as I haven't run windows now for 15 years
or so.  I would imagine there are online resources that will tell you
> what you need to do in Windows.

I run the 3.36.4 version of Evolution.




> Oh lord... Spam Assassin marked legit emails as apam.. 2 emails from
> Yahoo ( for my moms old account) and 2 from the local news station
> and replies to this message got marked as spam.. What do I do to
> stopthat from happening?

Thanks,
Chris
Chris CWM030 com