Evolution

[Jeffrey F. Bloss]

John Dangler wrote:

> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > Well, you don't want to do that.
> > > 
> > > You've just suggested spamming the From: address of every forged e-mail
> > > you receive. You'd become part of the problem then.
> > How does that work?
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Is there a way to set this up in Evolution?
> > > 
> > > As a starter, set up a filter that redirects all mail to the Trash
> > > unless it matches each address in your list.
> > So this would be like setting up rules to say if sender is
> > such-and-such, move to inbox..., (but how do you set up mail to go
> > somewhere else by default?) but as a default everything would go to a
> > hold/trash folder.  Then if I don't move it, its trashed, either
> > programmatically or via some other method (although I hope the other
> > method isn't manual, since right now it takes me about an hour a day
> > just to dump mail I know I don't want)...
> > > 
> > > There is probably a more efficient way to do this, but I expect
> > > Thunderbird has a better solution.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for the input.  Other than this list, and 2 or 3 other tech
> > > > lists, I don't get much mail (until recently).
> DOH! I just looked and noticed that I don't actually have either
> spamassassin or bogofilter installed... (looking at the evo plug-ins it
> indicates that both are enabled)...
> I've seen threads on both of these, and some recent activity seemed to
> indicate that bogo is a better mousetrap.  Can anyone here shed some
> light on this?  I really need to get a handle around all the crap mail
> i'm receiving these days...

Bogo isn't necessarily the better trap, in fact in my opinion SA is.
But for local/personal installations Bogo is plenty good enough, and a
lot more user friendly. Just don't get impatient. Invest the effort in
training it properly and you'll end up with a pretty clean inbox with
little or no lost mail.

They advise you to only enable plugins for Bayes filters you actually
have installed so as to not "confuse" Evolution. If you don't have SA
installed, I'd un-check that plugin.

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