Rick, 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). > > Evolution seems to lose advantages it used to have by the day. When they > changed the Exchange server here from 2003 to 2007 about a week ago, > Evolution no longer works - it can't access Exchange 20007 - no one on > the list seems particularly alarmed by this. One would think that > eventually, there will only be Exchange 2007 servers.
Yes, we have the usable binaries out for the users (Fedora and OpenSUSE). We were thinking of getting them in early December. But due to a lot of issues we had, we have slipped badly and would reach a feature complete late march only. So try out the preview packages. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-hackers/2008-January/msg00035.html -Srini _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
