Evolution not filtering spam

[Jeff Waugh]

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 09:14 +1000, David wrote:
> 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? 

I'll leave that one for Matt to answer. :-)

> Are there any other options? What would be
> ideal for me would be bogofilter with a simple to administer white-list.

Yeah. So, I hacked Evolution to use bogofilter instead of spamassassin,
but they work somewhat differently, so things got ugly. For instance, in
Evolution, there's no way of marking normal mails as "ham". You can only
mark mails as "spam", and *then* mark them as "ham" (which moves them
out of the junk folder). I made it so anything that was moved out of the
junk folder was marked as "ham", which was okay, but bogofilter is a bit
pessimistic compared to SA, so it ended up requiring a lot of trips to
the junk folder to ham things. Grr.

It would be rad if all the email addresses in your address book were
automatically used as part of the white list, and the assumptions about
spamassassin were fixed. Hopefully, we can do that for Hoary.

- Jeff

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