On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 09:55 -0700, Tim Wescott wrote: > PROBLEM STATEMENT (may repeat things you already know): > > I have Lubuntu 14.04, and I use Evolution. > > Lubuntu is just Ubuntu with a different desktop and otherwise > streamlined to be lighter weight on the processor (and, it refrains from > a lot of the stupid gew-gaws that Ubuntu seems to have acquired). So it > uses the Evolution that comes with the mainstream Ubuntu. > > Canonical, in their infinite wisdom, decided to disable Bogofilter in > Evolution somewhere around 13.xx or 14.04. This leaves one with > SpamAssasin, which has always sucked for me and has recently stopped > filtering spam almost entirely, while still robbing huge amounts of > processing power from things I'd like to do. > > Folks have begged for this support to be backported to Evolution in > Ubuntu 14.04, but so far there's no word from Canonical. > > MY REAL QUESTION: > > I'm just about out of patience. I'd like to back up my Evolution stuff, > uninstall Evolution, and build/download/whatever the latest, or latest > pertinent Evolution, with Bogofilter support turned on, and use that. > > So -- what should I do? Assume that I've just told Evolution to make a > backup and waited for the requisite hour for it to happen, and I've > uninstalled Evolution. Assume also that I've had the occasional success > building from source, but that I'm not an expert (Expert at small > embedded software code bases -- yes. Expert at enormous desktop > software code bases that throw out tentacles everywhere -- no). > > - Is there a binary, or should I build? > - Where should I get source? > - What configuration parameters should I give so that Bogofilter > will work? > > It occurs to me that perhaps the safest thing to do would be to install > the source for Evolution 10.3.whatever from the Ubuntu repository, then > look around here to find out what flag it is you need to set to tell > Evolution to please use Bogofilter, then build. > > Opinions? Guidance? > > I'll even accept a measured amount of useless sympathy at this point -- > I'm tired of hand deleting offers of magic devices and/or drugs to > enlarge certain organs, and dating services so that I may arrange to > test them out on the sort of women who actually respond to junk email > from dating services. > +1 but I'm using Linux Mint with Evolution 3.10.4
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