On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 02:03 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 08:09 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > Since f7 evolution has really been efficient in separating out spam > > from my mail stream. Maybe I nnow get one spam message a week at > > maximum not i the junk folder. In fact it is to efficient. There is a > > regular poster to fedora-list that always has his messages put in > > junk. > > > > Up to now I can't alter this behavior. Anyone have any suggestions? > > Is yours using spam assassin to do the filtering? Do you keep spam > assassin up to date? Yes I do but it is used somehow internally by evolution. spamd does not have to be running. > > See the sa-update man file. I'm not sure if it's still the case, but > you ran that command daily to update the filtering rules from the spam > assassin website. It wasn't kept up to date by using yum. > > I haven't used spam assassin for ages, since I find it a pain. But do > you have a "this is not junk" button in the junk mail folder in > Evolution, and does it reprogram the rules accordingly? I have a this is not junk button but that does not do anything that I can see. Traditionally spamassassin was controlled by commands in the ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file. The databases get updated so that seems to be doing something but nothing else in the user_prefs file seems to work. The real question is how does evolution use spamassassin? > > -- > (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's > important to the thread.) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > -- ======================================================================= does your DRESSING ROOM have enough ASPARAGUS? ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
