[Bug 62192] evolution ships with spam filtering completely mangled

[Robert Persson]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: evolution

This bug is related to, but not identical to, #37878. It is more like a
number of bugs, but I am finding it very hard to distinguish one from
another.

1. I installed dapper and spam filtering did not work.

2. I found that bogofilter wasn't installed, even though I had
understood that evolution shipped with bogofilter enabled. So I
installed it. Then I made sure bogofilter was enabled and spamassassin
disabled in edit->plugins. It still didn't work.

3. I started evolution from the command line and found the messages less
than clear (another bug I think), but what I did get was something like
this:

robert at mr-rusty:~$ evolution
CalDAV Eplugin starting up ...

(evolution-2.6:5162): evolution-mail-WARNING **: ignored this junk
plugin: not enabled or we have already loaded one

(evolution-2.6:5162): e-utils-WARNING **: Plugin 'Spamassassin junk
plugin' failed to load hook 'org.gnome.evolution.mail.junk:1.0'

Which plugin is being ignored? It's not at all clear, but obviously
something isn't working. But shouldn't a user-friendly application show
a warning message in the GUI instead of waiting for you to launch it
from the command line in order to show you a few half-baked messages? If
you are used to how Thunderbird behaves you could take a very long time
to realise that the spam filter wasn't actually active or learning
anything.

4. I found on the web a bug report for evolution saying that you needed,
at some point in evolution's evolution, to have spamassassin installed
in order for evolution to ignore it properly and use bogofilter. So I
tried installing spamassassin and all its dependencies, but it made no
difference. Evolution froze, got killed and restarted, then froze again,
this time quickly followed by X (running the nvidia propietary legacy
driver) and/or the kernel, which forced me to hit the reset button
before I could make a note of where that old gnome bug report was
located. I've no idea whether the system freeze was in any way
connected, but the two evolution freezes did appear to be related to me
having just installed spamassassin, even though spamassassin was at the
time, as I have already said, disabled in edit->plugins.

5. For all I know, bogofilter could actually be working now after all my
fiddling about, but I have no way of telling for sure without waiting
quite a long time.

** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Unconfirmed

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evolution ships with spam filtering completely mangled
https://launchpad.net/bugs/62192