[ale] Evolution not processing junk mail -- Ideas anyone?

[Charles Shapiro]

Uh hmm. Spam filters are often separate from email clients in my
world. Maybe you didn't move the spam<->ham database over? In that
case your spam filter  has to learn which is which all over again, and
your problem should go away with time.

It might also be worthwhile to check whether you actually have
spamassassin or bogofilter installed and configured correctly.  I'm
running ubuntu here, so I'd check the installation with dpkg-query(1),
but IIRC rpm(8) can do the same thing.  For configuration you'll have
to check the doc on the spam filter you have installed. man(1) and the
files in /usr/share/doc are good places to look.  They might even tell
you where your old spam db was bein' kept. Restoring it would resolve
your troubles immediately.

-- CHS

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Richard Faulkner <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org> wrote:
> Greetings all --
>
> Not long ago there was a thread rolling around on Ubuntu and Fedora.  As
> much as I had really gotten to like 9.10 I had some nagging issues that just
> were too stupid to put up with.  With that I decided to switch to Fedora and
> viola!  Most of my problems vanished.  I do have one new issue though that
> is not a show stopper but something that I'd like to put out there to the
> group and see what ya'll think.
>
> Evolution 2.28.3 is the current email client that I'm using.  It was
> populated with back-up data from my old Karmic build and does most of what
> it's suppose to do but doesn't parse junk mail anymore.  Evolution in 9.10
> rocked and really did a great job of catching spam but this build is not
> doing it at all.  I've double-checked preferences and it should be
> processing for junk but I'm still manually dumping it far more than I was
> recently doing under Ubuntu.
>
> Other than that Fedora 12 has had it all OVER 9.10 for my money and I'm
> learning to be very happy with it.  The issues that were really troublesome
> in KK were easily overcome by F12.  All I really need is to fix this email
> issue and I'm pretty well set....
>
> Any ideas anyone?  (Yes, I'm a recent convert from Windows and have no plans
> of ever looking back...)
>
> ---Rich in Lilburn
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