GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 272926
Junk email not catching any obvious junk
Last modified: 2005-08-29 16:01:32 UTC
Description of Problem: Junk mail filter not filtering *any* mail. Even emails with "Nude" and "F*ck" in the subject are not caught. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Set the option "Check incoming mail for junk" 2. Mark approximately 100 emails as junk 3. Collect email from POP3 account 4. Observe that no email is put in the junk mail folder Actual Results: No email is automatically put in the junk folder Expected Results: After training, some email that matches previous junk should be put in junk folder How often does this happen? It never has put an email in the junk folder Additional Information: I do not have the "include remote tests" option checked.
sounds more like a spamassassin issue to me since that's the software that is doing the spam filtering, not evo.
Is there documentation to explain that the junk mail feature is using spam assassin? I do not have spam assassin installed. I just checked the option in the settings. Unless you can point me to a help page that says this, I'd say this is a documentation bug.
let me guess... you're using debian. the package is supposed to depend on spamassassin but for some reason the debian maintainers won't package it that way. oh well, not our problem (and yes, I'm fairly certain the user docs mention this)
I checked the documentation again. The main location for junk mail is in section 3.5 Stopping Junk Mail (Spam). There is not a single mention of spamassassin here. It really ought to. Section 7.3.5 Junk Mail Preferences does have a statement: "Checking for junk mail uses the SpamAssassin* tool with trainable Bayesian filters." This is not sufficient from a casual user's perspective because other mail clients like mozilla mail will do junk mail training without needing to install a secondary tool. I'm still sticking a bug tag on this for this reason. Clicking on junk/ not junk does not inform the user that nothing is really happening when spamassassin is not installed. How was I to know that it was missing something without filing this bug?
if debian packaged it right, it would never have been a problem :)
Added to doc.