Evolution

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On 03/27/2007 08:30 AM, John Dangler wrote:
> Since applying for a scholarship online about 2 weeks ago, I have been
> consistently inundated with spam mail in my personal email box
> (approximately 500-600 per day).  I've been setting up rules to filter
> this, but I do notice 2 things
> (1) the douche bags who insist on doing this just keep changing the
> names of the subject, and the source (xlt.com , xlti.com, xtli.com,
> txltet.com) ... 
> (2) some of the filters don't even work, which for the life of me i
> cannot figure out why... i.e. (I have a rule looking for _any_ of
> single, singles, Single, Singles, SINGLE, SINGLES; I get an email with
> Are you tired of being single ? in the subject, and the filter leaves it
> alone) ...
> 
> At this point, I'd like to blacklist my entire mailbox, and open it only
> to those I want to allow in, either by sending an autoresponse (like
> "hey, reply to this and i'll read your mail") , or some other method.
> 
> Is there a way to set this up in Evolution?
> 
> Thanks for the input.  Other than this list, and 2 or 3 other tech
> lists, I don't get much mail (until recently).
> 
> 

Please don't do that; it only creates more backscatter. See:
<http://www.spamresource.com/2007/02/backscatter-what-is-it-how-do-i-stop-it.html>
for info.

You might find these links helpful:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToEnableSpamFilteringInEvolution

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=99603
[Howto spam filtering in Evolution with bogofilter and spamassassin]
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=293693
[Composing Filters In Evolution]
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?query=evolution
<http://johnny.chadda.se/2007/01/29/make-evolution-really-filter-spam-in-ubuntu/>
[Make Evolution really filter spam in Ubuntu]

In Evolution: Help|Contents|Create Rules to Automatically Organize Mail
Edit|Plugins - make sure that you have the Bogofilter and Spamassassin
plugins checked.

Interesting... If I use synaptics & search on 'spam' I find bogofilter &
spamassassin not installed. However, my filters are working just fine so
perhaps those are to be used if you are running a server?