I didn't have time to check the archives thoroughly but I'm somewhat surprised nobody has put a Bayesian spam filter or something like that into Evolution. I'd kill for that. I'd do it myself if I had the time, but I really don't.
Anyway, in case this spurs someone to do some work, I did spend some time working on an imap server based bayesian system. The idea was that with imap the folders are all on the server and I can easily create a special "spam" folder that users can drag and drop spam into, and use their personal folders for the not-spam side of things. My system was rebuilding the databases every once in awhile out of cron but with a built-in system you could do it as-you-go (which would be cool). This was drop-dead simple to use from the user's point of view (my goal was that my wife should be able to use it without my help). The downfall was that I haven't had the time to get the delivery stuff working and integrated into my mail delivery system. Apple's mail client with Jaguar (OSX 10.2) does something more or less like this, but instead of a spam folder there's a "this is spam" button. And instead of moving probable spam into a special folder it colorizes them or destroys them (at your option). In some ways I like this, but I would kind of like to be able to go in and edit the spam template messages so I think I'd still rather have a spam folder and have colorization or prioritization versus a trash folder as an option. Anyway, if anyone has time to work on something like this I bet a ton of people would love it. I sure would. In fact, I'd pay money if this feature were an add-on ala Exchange connectivity (hint). I'd also pay money for a Windows version of Evolution (hint hint) so I didn't have to switch to Outlook whenever I have to use Windows. I note that I looked into spamassassin, which seems to be the preferred technique using an external filter, and I really dislike its rule-based system. Way too many false positives, and a lot of work to set up and maintain too. Spam filtering would be a great integrated feature and doesn't look like it'd be a lot of work to implement. jim _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution