Cant get evolution to filter spam - or douse bogofilter just suck

[Ben Edwards]

Turned bogofilter off, restarted evolution and it seems to work.

Same really, bogofilter is supposed to use less resources and do a
better job but I guess the integration is screwed in Ubuntu.

Ben

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 07:39 +0800, Gerard Bendotti wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 18:30 +0100, Ben Edwards wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 00:12 +0800, Gerard Bendotti wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 14:21 +0100, Ben Edwards wrote:
> > > > since upgrading to dapper evolution has stopped filtering spam.  I was
> > > > previously using spamassasin and evolution now seems to use bogofilter,
> > > > which is supposed to be quicker and work better.   Thing is
> > > > bogofilter.cf has every line remed out.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I just reinstalled spamassassin, junk is now being junked...
> > > 
> > > Be interested to know if you persist with bogofilter and get it to work,
> > > I think you are on the right track with the #comments.
> > 
> > I tried that, spamassassin/evolution dont work ;(
> > 
> > was there another package as well as spamassassin that I need?
> > 
> 
> I noticed that it won't work if the bogofilter is enabled. I turned
> bogofilter on again after my last post, and this morning 10 junk mail
> pieces in my Inbox... Turned bogofilter off, restarted Evolution and
> before I have even finished this reply to you there is one junk mail in
> the junk mail folder.
> 
> Have you tried 
> 
> 'which spamassassin'
> 
> or 
> 
> 'spamassassin -V'
> 
> or 
> 
> spamassassin -D < /usr/share/doc/spamassassin/examples/sample-spam.txt
> 
> I do remember something about 'spamd'
> 
> Good luck
> Gerard
> 
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