Evolution terribly unstable

[Lionel Dricot]

Although I looked for informations a lot of times, I was not aware of
that. So, my fault here.

So, in order to have spam filtering, you have to :

0. Understand that Spam Filtering will not work even if you can see a
big "mark this as spam" button.

1. Install spamassassing package

2. Edit /etc/default/spamassin and change the value "0" to "1"

3. Reboot or start SA daemon. (I still don't understand why a daemon is needed)

4. Pick some of you biggest folders (which contain no spam) and
run sa-learn on them like this: "sa-learn --ham --mbox
~/evolution/local/path/to/folder/mbox"

5. in Evolution create a folder called sa-learn. In that folder
create two sub-folders: ham and spam. Now, whenever you download new
mail, move any message that spamassassin incorrectly identifies as spam
into the ham folder, and any spam messages that spamassassin fails to
identify into the spam folder.


6. periodically run the following two commands (you could even create
cron jobs for them if you wanted):
sa-learn --ham --mbox ~/evolution/local/sa-learn/subfolders/ham/mbox
sa-learn --spam --mbox ~/evolution/local/sa-learn/subfolders/spam/mbox


In the result, you will have a working spam filtering with the
following drawbacks :
-  a permanent running daemon (wich consumes memory. annoying for small config)
- take a few seconds of processing for each mail you receive, wich is
annoying at best and really frustrating on medium config.


Hmm...

Let's try Thunderbird :

1. Install thunderbird

2. Mark yours 10 first spam as spam.

3. enjoy.. Spam filtering is almost instantaneous even on a small config.


I'm not trying to make a comparison between Evolution and Thunderbird.
I personnaly don't like TB and use Evolution everyday. But, honnestly,
isn't something broken in the way we ship Evolution in Ubuntu ?

Do you think we need a spec to define how we could ship a working
out-of-the-box spam filtering in evolution ?

> Did you use sa-learn --ham to train SA?  This cannot be done from within
> Evolution.
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2003-October/msg00622.html
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> Lee
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