On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 16:28 -0700, Schlaegel wrote: > I recently switched from Thuderbird to evolution. I have since been > diligently flagging all of the spam I get, but to no avail. I found it to be less that worthwhile, similarly. I was forever having to categorise mail as being spam, when that's what the software is supposed to do *for* *me*. And it made evolution even more painfully slow than it already was. > I am simply running the evolution rpms available from fedora. It makes use of spamassassin, you have to keep that up to date. That's not just a case of yum updating spamassassin, but keeping the package's rules up-to-date, and that's handled differently. I ran a cron.daily script, for a while, to do that. I seem to recall it was just: #/bin/sh /usr/bin/sa-update > The spam I flag seems to permanently reside in the junk folder, but > new spam does not seem to automatically get flagged. As someone's pointed out, you need to enable the Evolution options for automatic spam detection (in the mail account settings, and the general mail preferences). > Also, there seems to be no way to automatically have the junk folder > clean itself out. That was another deficiency that turned me off bothering with it. If I have to manually check, what's the point in auto-spam handling? At the very least, you ought to be able to specify that junk mail gets purged after being in there for something like one month (that's mail that's one month old, not just emptying the whole box, old mail and new, at the first of the month). Common advice is to do spam detection / mail filtering outside of the mail client. You've already seen how Evolution sucks at doing it. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
