On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 17:33 -0300, "Germán A. Racca" wrote: > On 04/02/2012 05:19 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 12:54 -0300, "Germán A. Racca" wrote: > >> Hi folks: > >> > >> I always utilized Spamassassin for filtering spam messages in Evolution, > >> but lately it is not working effectively. It happens in my POP3 account > >> for my institution email. I have to mark always the same messages as > >> junk, which is frustrating. Some spam mails get filtered, but others > >> don't, they always appear as not junk, even though I mark them as junk. > >> > >> Does this happens to anyone else? Any help is appreciated. > >> > >> All the best, > >> Germán. > > Do you have a user_prefs filer in the .spamassassin directory in your > > home directory. That is needed to control the actions of spamassassin. > > Look to the spamassassin documentation to see how that works if you > > don't. On my machine spamassassin is wonderfully effective. > > Yes, I have that file, but I never modified it, so I think it should > work. Or do I have to modify it to really work? > > Germán. It should work but there are things you can modify in the file to improve its performance. I see you are thinking to switch to Bogofilter. I have always used spamassassin on a non-server and it works well for me. But maybe in your environment Bogofillter will work better One more thing. You have evolution-spamassassin installed and have configured evolution to use spamassassin? -- ======================================================================= Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. -- George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Don Juan" ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org