Re: How can I get Evolution's Spam Filter to Work

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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.

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