Evolution not filtering spam

[Erik Bågfors]

You shouldn't use sudo for sa-learn. That should run as your current
user not as root.  Root doesn't get that many mails he should run
throught sa.

/Erik


On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:57:37 -0500, drunken-wallaby
<ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> i now have the following problem with evolution, spamassassin and
> spam-mails. i made sure that spamd is running because i can see the
> following entry owned by a local user within my running processes: > spamd --port 7830 --daemonize.
> 
> considering the post written by colin (10-26-2004 12:35 PM) in this
> thread i made sure that spamassassin was trained with ham mails as
> well. so i made a new folder called "ham" in evolution, moved a lot of
> hams into it and in the shell i did a simple
> Code:
> --------------------
>     sudo sa-learn --ham --mbox /home/user/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/ham
> --------------------
>  with the result that spamassassin learned from 583 messages which
> should be enough to get the baysian filter initialised.
> 
> additionally, i did manually train the filter with spams as well
> Code:
> --------------------
>     sudo sa-learn --spam --mbox /home/user/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/spam
> --------------------
>  (even though i hit the "junk" button in evolution quite often already)
> with the result that spam-assassin learned from about 450 spam mails.
> 
> i daily get about 70 spam mails and i know that the filter is up and
> running because about 5 % of the incoming spam mails are filtered
> correctly and therefore moved into the junk folder. but that's way too
> bad. i continue marking the mails which spamassassin falsely classified
> as ham as junk by hitting the button in evolution, however, nothing
> noticeable did change.
> 
> anyone how has experienced something similar?
> 
> thanks all
> 
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> drunken-wallaby
> 
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