Does Spamassassin junk processing work for anyone under evolution?

Matthew Saltzman mjs at clemson.edu
Sat Aug 4 02:37:03 UTC 2012


On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 15:08 -0400, Aaron Konstam wrote: 
> On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 14:37 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 10:34 -0400, Aaron Konstam wrote: 
> > > On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 21:23 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 21:16 -0400, Aaron Konstam wrote: 
> > > > > Beforwe I file a bugzilla does spamaswsassin Junk processing work
> > > > for
> > > > > anyone under evolution?
> > > > 
> > > > I'm not quite sure.  I have evolution-spamassassin and evolution-rspam
> > > > installed.  I can filter junk, but I can't enable the spam reporting
> > > > plugin.
> > > > 
> > > The question is when you receive mail doews the spam automatically end
> > > up in the Junk folder? It does not on my machine?
> > > And this has never happened before. I mean in earlier fedora versons.
> > 
> > Ah.  The answer is, yes.  It works on my Exchange EWS account and on my
> > POP3 account.  For some definition of "works".  Some junk is not caught
> > and some non-junk is caught.  There is no junk in my Gmail account, but
> > I don't get much spam there.
> > 
> > To turn it on for an account, Edit -> Preferences -> Mail Accounts ->
> > <select account> -> Edit -> Receiving Options, then check "Check new
> > messages for junk contents".  My POP account doesn't offer a junk filter
> > option, so that might be happening at the host.
> > 
> > Also configure global junk processing in Edit -> Preferences -> Mail
> > Preferences -> Junk.
> > 
> > I still can't get spam reporting working, but I suppose that's another
> > thread.
> Except the option "Check new messages for Junk" is under thew Junk tab
> of Mail Preference. 

Yes, there, too.  But also there's a setting in each account (other than
POP, apparently).

> In my case no messages are sent to the Junk folder
> automatically.

Just to make sure, do you have the spamassassin and
evolution-spamassassin RPMs installed?

-- 
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu



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