Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Have you read > http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ#Why_does_Evolution_not_automatically_filter_for_spam.3F ?
Yes. It says: > Note: "Learn", not identify. Messages are learned either by manually > classifying them, or if a certain threshold is reached (which is more > extreme than the line between Spam and Ham). That's exactly the distinction I'm talking about. Patrick wrote: >> 2. It should be easy to make sure that I train my spam filter with >> every single email that I receive. > > If it's being junk-filtered, the filter is being trained. A message can be filtered but not trained. Or, to use the terminology in the FAQ, a message can be identified as spam but not trained as spam. >> 2a. For the messages outside of my Junk folder, can the user interface >> show the status - Not Junk or Unknown? > > If it's not in the Junk folder, it's not Junk. When I see an old message in some folder other than the Junk folder, I know that one of three things has happened. Either: 1. bogofilter said the message was 100% ham, and the message was learned. 2. bogofilter said the message was 50% ham, and then I clicked "Not Junk", and the message was learned. 3. bogofilter said the message was 50% ham, and the message has not been learned. I want the user interface to identify "Not Junk" messages (types 1 and 2) and "Unknown" messages (type 3). The interface should discourage me from clicking "Not Junk" (again) on messages of type 1 and 2, and it should discourage me from deleting messages of type 3 without first clicking "Not Junk". This seems like a fairly basic requirement for spam handling. I've used Thunderbird a little bit, and I've used Apple Mail a little bit, and I think that they both do it. I think they color-code the message headers. I assumed that Evolution can do this too, somehow. Can't it? Also: >> 2c. When I do "Check for Junk" (or the check happens automatically) >> and Evolution moves a message to the Junk folder, can it train the >> message as Junk while moving it? > > That's what it does. Do you have an indication that that isn't > happening? Yes. First, I run "bogoutil -d .bogofilter/wordlist.db | grep MSG_COUNT" and it says: .MSG_COUNT 430 919 20090309 Then, I go to evolution, select a new message, and do "Check for Junk". Evolution moves the message into my junk folder. Then I run the bogoutil command again, and it still says "430 919". Thanks for any help. Sal _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
