On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 09:54 -0800, JP wrote: > michael wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 04:55 -0800, JP wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > > > I have recently started to use evolution as my mail client. However, I > > > can't figure out how to make it work with spamassassin to detect the > > > tons of junk mail I get every day. I have come across several posts to > > > ubuntu/debian/gentoo... mailing lists describing different settings to > > > make it work but none of them has worked for me so far. I have > > > installed spamassassin and enbled it in /etc/defaults/spamassassin, > > > checked the spamassassin plugin and spam detection options within > > > evolution, and created a junkmail testing filter. The status bar says > > > that it is learning to detect spam, but it actually doesn't work. > > > > > > Ch > > > > which version of Evolution (etc)? > > you don't need to set up any testing filter with recent versions of > > Evolution IIRC. have you set up all the relevant options in the > > preferences for the relevant accounts? do you have spamd/spamc running? > > have you trained spamassassin? > Versions are: > evolution 2.6.3-2 > spamassassin 3.1.7-1 > The following options are set: > Edit->Plugins->Spam detection with spamassassin > Edit->Preferences->Mail options->Spam->Detect if incoming mail is spam > & Include remote tests > I've checked that spamd is up and spamc installed: > debian_etch$ ps -ef | grep spam > root 3859 1 0 Nov29 ? 00:00:03 /usr/sbin/spamd > --create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir > jp 9872 3859 0 Nov30 ? 00:01:01 spamd child > jp 9903 3859 0 Nov30 ? 00:00:25 spamd child > jp 3449 4465 0 18:44 pts/3 00:00:00 grep spam > debian_etch$ which spamc > /usr/bin/spamc > > I've selected hundreds of junk messages and manually flagged them as > spam. I've also selected some ham messages and flagged as spam and > afterwards as not spam. > > I also thought that the spam folder would get full of junk soon after > flagging some junks messsages but nothing happened. Then I started > setting/unsetting any option I could think off.
Seems okay (presuming you've not messed any option re last sentence). My junk goes to a 'Junk' folder not one named 'Spam'/'spam'... I believe it you mark it as Junk it should go there. IIRC it takes a long(ish) [a few hundred?] while before S.A. starts marking stuff automatically. Have you checked your syslog and mail.* logs? Eg when SA is doing it's job I get: Dec 4 12:01:09 ratty spamd[12035]: checking message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for michael:1000. Dec 4 12:01:10 ratty spamd[12035]: identified spam (15.0/5.0) for michael:1000 in 0.1 seconds, 23780 bytes. Dec 4 12:01:10 ratty spamd[12035]: result: Y 15 - BAYES_99,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA,HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR2,HTML_40_50,HTML_FONT_INVISIBLE,HTML_FONT_LOW_CONTRAST,HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_12,HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY,MSGID_FROM_MTA_ID scantime=0.1,size=23780,mid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,bayes=1,autolearn=no I do recall thinking I had this prob in the past, checked various newsgroups etc then decided I just had to let S.A. learn - and now it does seem to work (unless I start reading etc new msgs while S.A. is still filtering... that sometimes seems to screw things up) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]