Evolution not filtering spam

[Matthew Bassett]

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 23:13 +0100, Ben Edwards (lists) wrote: 

> On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 22:34 +0100, Matthew Bassett wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 05:53 -0500, rjl wrote: 
> > > I set up universe and installed spamassassin, but evolution still does
> > > not seem to be filtering spam.  
> > > 
> > > Evolution mail is set to "check incoming mail for spam" and to "include
> > > remote tests", but still no filtering.
> > > 
> > > Is there something I have to do to start spamassassin?
> > You might have to add your networks (e.g. 127.0.0. for
> > starters) /etc/spamassassin/local.cf
> 
> is it 
> 
> trusted_networks 127.0.0.1
> 
> I need to add?


I think you just need the network address for the loopback network (if
such a thing can be said to exist) which would be:

       127.0.0.

However... I'm still not sure why this would be needed (or why it was
not workingfor me on one machine until I added this, but was working on
another machine without adding this).

Actually it's really beginning to bug me that I don't understand what's
happening.

I have two machines: shuttle and original.

The mail server runs on original, which grabs all my mail using
fetchmail and then punts most of it off to shuttle (using postfix) which
is the one that everyone logs into.

Neither machine has spamd running, but both have spamassassin installed
and both (now) have exactly the same default setup of config files for
spamassassin.

When a user collects email (using evolution) on shuttle, spamc has 3
tries at connecting to spamd, then gives up (because it's not
running)... then a new spamc (new process) has another 3 tries, and
kicks off a spamd which then filters incoming mail.

When the user on original collects email (again using evolution, and
with exactly the same junk filtering settings as on shuttle) a spamc has
3 goes at connecting to spamd (which is not running), then gives up--
end of story, no spamd kicked off.

If I fiddle with the trusted_networks setting
in /etc/spamassassin/local.cf on original to include the local 'loopback
network' then it will start a spamd-- but I don't understand why this
needs to be done for one machine and not the other.

Note that the only difference between the two machines that I know about
is the number of times that the Spam / Not Spam buttons have been
pressed.

Anybody got any ideas where to start looking for differences?

Has anybody got any ideas where to start looking for differences between
the two machines?


> 
> 127.0.0.1 is my loopbaack
> 
> Ben
> > 
> > But you might not (I have one machine for which this apparently made a
> > difference and one machine that just worked-- I have not fully
> > investigated though)-- have you started the spamd since installing it?
> > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > rjl
> > 
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