GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 665008
Document training junk/spam filters
Last modified: 2013-09-13 01:06:05 UTC
From the "How to handle unsolicited e-mails with evolution 2.32.2 ?" thread on evolution mailing list this month: the new FAQ says nothing about how to train the junk filters. The old FAQ at least mentioned this as something you need to do. However, there are some webpages out there stating that you can only use one spam filter at a time plus that training is not needed anymore for Bogofilter: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Evolution#Spamfilter Validating that piece of information would be great.
Might be also useful to link to http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/faq.shtml and http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FrequentlyAskedQuestions as Evolution cannot and should not cover any potential configuration question for these tools.
More useful stuff from the mailing list: Bogofilter: "By default it won't filter anything. It does not come with a default set of spam criteria, since one person's spam may be another person's ham. That's why you have to get it to learn what *you* consider to be spam." as written by Patrick O'Callaghan. "SpamAssassin works through a set of rules, hence it can determine spam straight away; you can modify the action of SpamAssassin by training it as well. Bogofilter works only by learning. If you only train a spam filter on bad messages, it will assume all mail is bad (because it does not know any difference) hence the programs are designed to not make any decisions until the database is sufficiently large to determine what is *and is not* spam." by Pete Biggs.
Fixed for 3.3.92: http://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?id=d04c2d3a9bb26563e1b854773e7b9a106eeae33c http://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?id=ea3c3ad448447fa668a96b79ea55c8758c370776 http://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?id=ee82d456d057ac63ff3e9193d8bbe882bf02192c