On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 12:20 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Take a look at Preferences->Junk Filter. You should see a confirmation > of which filter you are using, and a line stating that the executable > exists. If it doesn't say that, there is a fix: there was a whole thread > on <evolution-list@xxxxxxxxx> about this a few weeks ago. It tends to > bite people who upgraded from earlier Fedora versions. I finally sorted > it out following a suggestion of <psimth@xxxxxxx> saying that it's > actually a Gconf issue. I enlose my reply to his message. > > poc > > PS I changed from SA to BF last year and have been happy with it. SA > seemed to have a lot of issues (aside from this one, which isn't in fact > SA's fault). The Evo people are now canvassing opinions on whether to > have BF as the default spam filter. > email message attachment, "Attached message - Re: [Evolution] > Spamfiltering with evolution - NO LONGER WORKS" > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > From: Patrick O'Callaghan <poc@xxxxxx> > > To: psmith@xxxxxxx > > Cc: evolution-list <evolution-list@xxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Re: [Evolution] Spamfiltering with evolution - NO LONGER > > WORKS > > Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:41:10 -0430 > > > > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 21:33 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 21:14 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > So the problem is somewhere in my Gconf or .evolution. Where do I > > > > start looking? > > > > > > Aha! The circle closes! > > > > > > OK, my suspicion is that it's a gconf issue. I really dislike gconf: I > > > can't believe after the disaster that is the Windows registry the Gnome > > > folks thought it was a good idea to emulate it. Text config files rule! > > > > Totally agree. I can't stand it. > > > > > Anyway. > > > > > > If you don't have a copy already, you need to get gconf-editor. Fire it > > > up. On my Ubuntu box it doesn't install into the menu system (that I > > > can find); run it from a terminal. > > > > > > Now, open up apps -> evolution -> mail -> junk. I don't know what it > > > should look like, but mine says: > > > > > > check_incoming <check> > > > default_plugin Bogofilter > > > empty_date 0 > > > empty_on_exit <not checked> > > > empty_on_exit_days 0 > > > > > > Underneath that, I have "folders" for bogofilter and sa. The bogofilter > > > one says: > > > > > > unicode <check> > > > > > > I'm not really sure what might be the problem here though. What does > > > yours look like? > > > > Solved! the default_plugin was SpamAssassin, despite the fact that the > > SA plugin was disabled and the GUI showed BF whenever I clicked on the > > drop-down list. I edited it by hand to Bogofilter, restarted completely, > > and it seems to be working (after about 5 seconds testing). > > > > Many thanks for your help. I've no idea how this could have happened as > > I'm not in the habit of editing Gconf by hand, but obviously something > > messed with it out of sight. Evolution preferences has always shown bogofilter available and enabled. I had even removed spamassassin and it did not help get spam filtering to work under Fedora 8. (Bogofilter had been enabled under Fedora 6 and had worked perfectly until I installed Fedora 8 [I installed, not upgraded from Fedora 6].) I followed Peter Gordon's suggestion and also marked some mail as "not junk". I also dowloaded and installed gconf-edit which showed bogofilter enabled - I'm not sure what spamassassin showed but I unchecked the two boxes. Now, for the first time bogofilter appears to be working. At least, I haven't noticed any spam over the last 8 hours. Now if I could only get the MAPI plugin working with Exchange Server 2007. Rick B.
