On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 22:31 -0500, David Bicking wrote:
> Can anybody point me to documentation on how evolution handles junk
> mail? Meaning what rules it is using. As near as I can tell I have the
> function turned on, and as near as I can tell, it has never flagged
> anything as junk on its own. I get a number each day that are
> "obviously" spam, from addresses are random sequences of 12 characters
> with a hotmail domain. The receipt date shows as a "?" I have hit the
> junk button on these hundreds of times, yet it still hasn't learned
> whatever it needs to learn to flag the new ones itself. 

> Is it possible I have missed something?

Yep. Blame spamassassin ;-) This is used by evolution to filter junk.
Tweak spamassassin to your likings and evolution will follow.

> I guess I should feel lucky, I only get maybe a half dozen a day: I
> understands others get hundreds a day, but it is still annoying.

Like me :-(

Although only one in about 2-4 weeks gets through, it's all in the
tweaking (and learning) of spamassassin.

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