GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 368851
Junk only works once
Last modified: 2006-11-08 16:32:13 UTC
Please describe the problem: Hitting the Junk button only actaully calls sa-learn once after a fresh evolution start. I see that it is calling sa-learn with a --version argument. Any subsequent use of the Junk button merely tags the message as junk (i.e. moves it to the Junk vFolder) but does not pass the message to sa-learn. Presumably there is something about that --version probe that is causing evo unhappiness about sa-learn and it is simply not trying any more. What conditions would cause this? Steps to reproduce: Probably... 1. create a shell script sa-learn that simply logs it's called parameters and put it in $PATH before any other sa-learn 2. hit junk on a message 3. hit junk on a subsequent message 4. check the log Actual results: only the first sa-learn will log a message Expected results: each sa-learn should log a message that it was called Does this happen every time? yes Other information:
OK. A look through the source for the sa junk plugin reveals the problem. There is a call to "spamassassin --version" used in trying to verify the presence of spamassassin and if it fails, no further calls to spamassassin are made. So, if like me, you have a customized, non-spamassassin supplied sa-learn command, and no "spamassassin" command your sa-learn command will not be executed. My custom "sa-learn" simply passes my ham/spam to an sa-learn process on the mail server (i.e. cat $spam | ssh $mailserver sa-learn $args) where my spamassassin installation really lives and since I had already discovered that the sa junk plugin wants to call sa-learn --version, it sufficed to replace "sa-learn" in the script with $(basename $0) and hard link my sa-learn to spamassassin. Now all is working again. Perhaps, as a result of all of this, what is needed is a very configurable generic junk plugin. It would probably need to have "initialize", "submit ham", "submit spam", and "sync" commands configurable. Being able to use it with spamassassin's sa-learn would be a good test for it given sa's need to have a "sync" operation after the submit ham/spam operations. In any case, this actual bug can be closed.