Evolution not filtering spam

David david at kenpro.com.au
Sun Oct 24 23:14:22 UTC 2004



On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 17:46 -0500, rjl wrote:
> > Is spamassassin among the ubuntu packages?  I tried apt-get and it was
> > not found.
> >
> > If I need to go to "universe" is that a problem?  After a couple of
> > weeks of playing with ubuntu I'm happy with what I have, except I would
> > like less spam. I don't want to break my system.
>
> Yes, you'll need to install spamassassin from universe if you want
> Evolution to do spam filtering. We chose not to support spamassassin,
> but we didn't have time to fix Evolution to use bogofilter correctly in
> the mean time.

I don't use evolution, but I do use bogofilter. My only problem with it is
the lack of a white-list function (V.0.17.4). Why did you choose
bogofilter over spamassassin? Are there any other options? What would be
ideal for me would be bogofilter with a simple to administer white-list.

thanks...

David.




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