Its been suggested before ...

You could just use an external app, and link it in the same way the
spamassasin stuff is normally linked in.

I still think doing it at the server end is the way to go though,
otherwise you have to waste time downloading the message anyway.


On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 03:42, Jim Frost wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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