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.

Cheers,
JP


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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?


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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 --er-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.

Cheers,
JP


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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 --er-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
<20061204115732.9E5B77385@tempeh.redblackandgreen. net> 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,H TML_40_50,HTML_FONT_INVISIBLE,HTML_FONT_LOW_CONTRA ST,HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_12,HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY, MSGID_FROM_MTA_ID scantime=0.1,size=23780,mid=<20061204115732.9E5B77 385@tempeh.redblackandgreen.net>,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)


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