But all this misses the essential point I was trying to make but obviously not well enough: 1. Evolution is removing spam and places the result into junk but not very effectively. 2. The Bayes databases keep getting updated . 3. Messages don't get the headers I would expect from spamassassin. 4. My user_prefs file says Spam should have its header altered by inserting the word SPAM in the subject line. That does not happen. Something is wrong with the way evolution (or at least my evolution) is using spam. Does anyone know what is wrong? -- Aaron Konstam tel: (210) 656-0355 akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx