Re: is evolution really dependent on spamassassin?

[John Summerfield]

Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 11:01 -0500, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> > I haven't checked, but I bet there must be a compile option in the
> > evolution source that allows you to disable spamassassin. If I really
> > wanted to get rid of spamassassin, I'd download the evolution src.rpm,
> > hack it, change the spec file and rebuild it. But probably not worth
> > the trouble.
>
> I'm considering it, because it's taking ages for filtering to complete
> (nothing elaborate, either), and I'm registering DNS look-ups for all
> the addresses in messages.
>
> An undisabled spamassasin, despite my configuration options, is looking
> like the culprit.

If you can't disable the use of spamassassin, removing it will likely 
break E entirely.