Evolution and spam

Richard Kleeman kleeman at cims.nyu.edu
Thu Mar 16 19:36:38 GMT 2006


Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> On do, 2006-03-16 at 11:38 +0100, VETSEL Patrice wrote:
> 
>> Where are we going with spam filtering in evolution ?
> 
> Currently nowhere unfortunately - and dapper is already way past feature
> freeze (even if dapper were delayed, feature free would remain intact).
> Please write a BetterSpamFiltering spec for dapper+1 with your ideas and
> let's hope it will be implemented.
> 
> In Dapper I switched from spamassassin to bogofilter but it's not useful
> at all since you can't mark messages as non-juk if they are no yet
> marked as junk. And thus bogofilter (same goes for spamassassin) cannot
> learn good tokens. You have to resort to the command line for this.
> 
> I really hope that there will be some improvement for dapper+1, which
> only is possible if someone with good ideas about it writes a spec.
> 

A short term fix I have used is to shunt my email through a large ISP 
mailbox (optimum online) which gets rid of about 80% of the spam and 
then use thunderbird which has a mediocre spam filter to kill the rest. 
Works quite well and I would estimate 80% of my raw mail is spam.




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