On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 23:15 -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote: > On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 14:39 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 09:43 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 23:42 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > > > > > I have several questions about how spamfiltering works with evolution. > > > > > > > > 1) Can evolution use both bogofilter and spamassassin concurrently? Or > > > > is it only possible to select between on of them. > > > > I think if the later is the case one should use spamassissin as it's > > > > more powerfull? > > > > > > No, you can only use one or the other. Neither is really "more > > > powerful", since evo only uses the bayesian filtering from SA, which is > > > what bogofilter does as well. > > > > AFAIK when using Spamassassin Evo calls "spamc" to report spam/ham to a > > background "spamd" daemon. There are no spamc options to tell SA to only > > use Bayesian filtering. > > > > OTOH I regularly used to have problems with multiple "spamd" daemons > > being started, especially when Evo would crash or hang. These got on my > > nerves so I switched to Bogofilter, which is indeed faster, and also > > doesn't use a client-server structure like SA. > > > > This worked fine until I recompiled my own copy of Evo 2.12. The > > Junk/Not Junk buttons work as before, but Evo *never* calls Bogofilter > > on its own, so effectively I now have no spam filtering at all (I also > > made sure the BF plugin is installed in the right place, just in case). > > I mentioned this on the list a while back but no-one followed up. Maybe > > it will all sort itself out when I can use Fedora 8 and official > > packages. > > > > poc > > I'm using 2.12.2 in Fedora 8 and I can tell you spam filtering with > bogofilter does not work at all. (It worked fine under Fedora 6).
Yes, I can confirm that (now using the official RPMs). I now have no spam filtering. I'm reluctant to go back to SA as I think BF is more suited to a personal machine. I'll report it to Bugzilla but don't hold your breath ... <insert routine call for Evo to support server-side filtering here> poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
