Re: [Evolution] spam filters being ignored

[Tim Ehrenhaft <tim ehrenhaft gmail com>]

thanks for the replies.. 

It turns out the offenders were bypassing the filters by (somehow)
auto-adding themselves to my contacts without my knowledge or
permission.. 

easier to check contacts than to try to figure out the tech guts.. hope
others can benefit from this low-tech solution - audit your contacts
and delete any you don't recognize.. 
 
Keep in touch..

Tim Ehrenhaft
Skype: reverandtimothy 
US: 931.444.5239
EU: 372.5335.9733

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>
To: evolution-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] spam filters being ignored
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 17:13:58 +0000

On Mon, 2022-03-14 at 16:58 +0200, Tim Ehrenhaft via evolution-list
wrote:
> Hey all,
> I'm running Evolution 3.42.4 (by Flathub.org)) on Linux Zorin 15, and
> am receiving spams that are not appearing on the gmail website... the
> spams appear only in evolution, not on gmail.com (the gmail filters
> appear to be working, as gmail's spam folder is empty)

If Gmail's spam "folder" is empty, that would indicate that Gmail is
*not* filtering spam.

> I've created filters for each spam (including subject, sender, and
> recipient info) with instructions to delete immediately to no avail..
> I
> still get multiple spams daily from the same senders.. i'm not a
> subscriber to mailing lists or websites (except for evolution-list),
> and even if i were, a filter should actually filter..
> This happened on the previous version of evolution as well, so
> updating
> to this version didn't fix it.. 
> I had to delete some filters because they were starting to bog
> evolution's send/receive action.. ugh
> How do I get evolution to stop pulling blocked spams from gmail (that
> don't appear in gmail)?

Hard to know without examples. I do all my filtering on Gmail (spam and
non-spam) and it works for me.

A good 99% of spam is caught by Gmail's automatic recogniser rather
than specific rules I set up. These rules do not immediately delete
spam, they file it in the Junk folder and delete it 30 days later.

I don't use Evolution filtering for anything, but if you want to do
that you need to train the specific spam filter (e.g. Bogofilter or
Spamassassin). You can't do that from the Gmail side. You'd also be
wise to avoid the two sides from stepping on each other's toes.

poc
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