On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 15:12 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > [I tried this on 2.4.1 and 2.5.1 with the same result.] > > First some background which may or may no be relevant. The way I handle > spam is for a server-side SpamAssassin process to file suspect messages > in a SPAM folder. For false negatives (i.e. undetected spam) I manually > move the offending messages to a subfolder of SPAM and periodically > process it by logging in to the server. > > Processing involves a little shell script on the server which calls > sa-learn on the contents of the subfolder. > > After that, I delete the contents of the subfolder using Evo. I then > expunge the subfolder to clean it out.
Patrick, This sounds neat - it's bugged me for a while that I'm processing spam in two places (I also have SA on my server). Would you mind posting your script - I'd like to try it on my set-up? Thanks, Des > For curiousity, I just checked on the server and the last bunch of spam > had not been deleted. Nevertheless, Evo shows the folder as empty. I > made sure Evo was set to Show Deleted Messages, and Show Hidden > Messages. I also made sure there was nothing in the Search box. > > I exited Evo and fired up Thunderbird. Sure enough, the messages are > still there. Go back to Evo and they don't appear. > > I've never seen this happen before and am not sure I can reproduce it, > which is why I'm giving so much detail. Probably this has nothing to do > with spam processing as such. (Note that Evo doesn't know I consider > these messages to be spam, as I don't use the Junk controls). > > It's worrying that an apparently deleted message is still present on the > server, *even after quitting and restarting Evo*. Is this another > caching bug or what? > > poc > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list -- Des Dougan, Principal Dougan Consulting Group Ph: 604-980-2848 Email: des at DouganConsulting dot com www.DouganConsulting.com Design - Implementation - Support _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
