GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 311328
Spam filter is inefficient
Last modified: 2006-03-25 10:21:25 UTC
Please describe the problem: Spam filter doesn't work well. The *same* mail marked as junk more than 30 times (I receive this one every day) is still left in the Inbox. Even after 6 month learning, Evo filters only 1/5 of the spams. TBird is *much* better in that job. Steps to reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
blame SpamAssassin, we just use that program to filter spam. btw, you need to train both HAM *and* SPAM, not just spam.
I think you missed the point. Evo may delegate this task to spamassassin or anything, I don't care. The fact is you advertise a feature ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/features.shtml ) which doesn't work properly. You implement it the way you want, I just give you a "user feedback" on this feature. But if you don't give a s*, well.. "Baysean-based junk filtering withoptional remote rules get rid of all of the emails which bug you most." Missed. Enlarge your penis & friends are still there every morning.
did you train both ham and spam? do you have spamassassin installed? I bet anything the answer is no to at least one of the above questions if you are having that problem.
You can train ham in evo? How? (And why, given that I don't have to do that in gmail or mail.app?) Sounds like, worst case scenario, you guys have a serious usability problem if *I* didn't know you were supposed to train ham, or how.
uhhhh... that's how bayesian filters work.
See also bug 309181- this isn't the first bug filed about this, and certainly fit with my impressions when I could still use evo. (*mumble*crappy mail provider now*mumble*)
yes, I know that, Jeff. I'm not a complete idiot. But some people (apple, google, etc.) train their bayesian filters for ham automatically. So surely you guys can think of somehow to do that as well :)
Jeffrey, to answer your questions : yes. SpamAssassin is here, and I've been marking spams for a *very long* time. I also run "sa-learn --ham .evolution/mail/local/Inbox" when everything is clean (and when I don't forget to). There is an issue when you push this feature on top and it's actually barely usable. I shouldn't have to run "sa-learn" by hand. And "switch to TBird then" is *not* the solution. Ok, I've been a bit grumpy. Maybe because I've lost 695Kg, but at least now I've got 579845 green cards.
note: we developers didn't push this feature to the top. i never thought it would work in the first place, and don't imagine how it could be fixed.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 309181 ***