Spamassassin and evolution

[jdow]

From: "Roger Taranto" <roger at rogflies.com>

> On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 03:24, PFJ wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Spamassassin seems to think spam is nice. Even when I say, "no this is
>> spam, stop being silly".
>> 
>> I'm using evolution and have the rule
>> 
>> if spamd returns greater than 0 then move to folder Inbox/Rubbish (for
>> some reason, I can't select Junk!)
> 
> Spamd is the background daemon process, so I wanted to clarify what you
> meant by spamd returning 0.  Do you mean that the spamassassin score for
> a given message is greater than 0?  If so, you may want to re-think
> that.  Spamassassin gives messages points based on various things.  The
> default OOTB minimum score for spam is 5.0.  Without tweaking any of the
> Spamassassin defaults, you probably really don't want to consider
> anything below 5.0 as spam.

If I understand it correctly evilution is an MTA that uses SpamAssassin
to filter email at read time.

Just off hand I can't think of a more stupid way to use SpamAssassin
except maybe webmail. It'd be a tossup for how long you sit around
waiting for email to appear on the screen so you can read it.

Filter in your MDA. Then the MUA can simply work off the SpamAssassin
markup that is already present when it feeds messages off to individual
folders/sort bins/mailboxes/whatever.

{o.o}   I may be crazy enough to use OE. I'm NOT crazy enough to try
        to filter emails as they are read into an MUA. Life's too
        darned short for that.