On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 12:20 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Take a look at Preferences->Junk Filter. You should see a
confirmation
of which filter you are using, and a line stating that the executable
exists. If it doesn't say that, there is a fix: there was a whole thread
on <evolution-list(a)gnome.org> about this a few weeks ago. It tends to
bite people who upgraded from earlier Fedora versions. I finally sorted
it out following a suggestion of <psimth(a)gnu.org> saying that it's
actually a Gconf issue. I enlose my reply to his message.
poc
PS I changed from SA to BF last year and have been happy with it. SA
seemed to have a lot of issues (aside from this one, which isn't in fact
SA's fault). The Evo people are now canvassing opinions on whether to
have BF as the default spam filter.
email message attachment, "Attached message - Re: [Evolution]
Spamfiltering with evolution - NO LONGER WORKS"
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Patrick O'Callaghan <poc(a)usb.ve>
> To: psmith(a)gnu.org
> Cc: evolution-list <evolution-list(a)gnome.org>
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Spamfiltering with evolution - NO LONGER
> WORKS
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:41:10 -0430
>
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 21:33 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 21:14 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > So the problem is somewhere in my Gconf or .evolution. Where do I
> > > start looking?
> >
> > Aha! The circle closes!
> >
> > OK, my suspicion is that it's a gconf issue. I really dislike gconf: I
> > can't believe after the disaster that is the Windows registry the Gnome
> > folks thought it was a good idea to emulate it. Text config files rule!
>
> Totally agree. I can't stand it.
>
> > Anyway.
> >
> > If you don't have a copy already, you need to get gconf-editor. Fire it
> > up. On my Ubuntu box it doesn't install into the menu system (that I
> > can find); run it from a terminal.
> >
> > Now, open up apps -> evolution -> mail -> junk. I don't know what
it
> > should look like, but mine says:
> >
> > check_incoming <check>
> > default_plugin Bogofilter
> > empty_date 0
> > empty_on_exit <not checked>
> > empty_on_exit_days 0
> >
> > Underneath that, I have "folders" for bogofilter and sa. The
bogofilter
> > one says:
> >
> > unicode <check>
> >
> > I'm not really sure what might be the problem here though. What does
> > yours look like?
>
> Solved! the default_plugin was SpamAssassin, despite the fact that the
> SA plugin was disabled and the GUI showed BF whenever I clicked on the
> drop-down list. I edited it by hand to Bogofilter, restarted completely,
> and it seems to be working (after about 5 seconds testing).
>
> Many thanks for your help. I've no idea how this could have happened as
> I'm not in the habit of editing Gconf by hand, but obviously something
> messed with it out of sight.
Evolution preferences has always shown bogofilter available and enabled.
I had even removed spamassassin and it did not help get spam filtering
to work under Fedora 8. (Bogofilter had been enabled under Fedora 6 and
had worked perfectly until I installed Fedora 8 [I installed, not
upgraded from Fedora 6].) I followed Peter Gordon's suggestion and also
marked some mail as "not junk". I also dowloaded and installed
gconf-edit which showed bogofilter enabled - I'm not sure what
spamassassin showed but I unchecked the two boxes. Now, for the first
time bogofilter appears to be working. At least, I haven't noticed any
spam over the last 8 hours.
Now if I could only get the MAPI plugin working with Exchange Server
2007.
Rick B.