On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 11:16 -0700, jdow wrote:
> From: "Roger Taranto" <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 03:24, PFJ wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Spamassassin seems to think spam is nice. Even when I say, "no this is
> >> spam, stop being silly".
> >>
> >> I'm using evolution and have the rule
> >>
> >> if spamd returns greater than 0 then move to folder Inbox/Rubbish (for
> >> some reason, I can't select Junk!)
> >
> > Spamd is the background daemon process, so I wanted to clarify what you
> > meant by spamd returning 0. Do you mean that the spamassassin score for
> > a given message is greater than 0? If so, you may want to re-think
> > that. Spamassassin gives messages points based on various things. The
> > default OOTB minimum score for spam is 5.0. Without tweaking any of the
> > Spamassassin defaults, you probably really don't want to consider
> > anything below 5.0 as spam.
>
> If I understand it correctly evilution is an MTA that uses SpamAssassin
> to filter email at read time.
>
> Just off hand I can't think of a more stupid way to use SpamAssassin
> except maybe webmail. It'd be a tossup for how long you sit around
> waiting for email to appear on the screen so you can read it.
>
> Filter in your MDA. Then the MUA can simply work off the SpamAssassin
> markup that is already present when it feeds messages off to individual
> folders/sort bins/mailboxes/whatever.
>
> {o.o} I may be crazy enough to use OE. I'm NOT crazy enough to try
> to filter emails as they are read into an MUA. Life's too
> darned short for that.
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Evolution is an MUA
whether you use outlook express or not is not germane
whether you are crazy or not is not germane
The fact is that Linux recycles code and thus Thunderbird, Evolution and
I believe Kmail (though I'm not certain) use spamassassin to filter junk
e-mail.
Perhaps the developers of these MUA's are crazy for doing it the
non-jdow recommended way.
Perhaps you aren't conversant with the usage or the needs of typical
pop3 users.
That said, I handle at the MTA level myself and switch off 'junk
filtering' in Thunderbird & Evolution and actually use imap but that too
is beside the point.
Craig
