[Evolution] Bug#481486: evolution: Bogofilter plugin seems inactive until valid email is classified as non-spam
Olivier Berger
olivier.berger at it-sudparis.eu
Fri May 16 12:48:24 UTC 2008
Package: evolution
Version: 2.22.1-1
Severity: normal
Evolution recently included the bogofilter spam plugin (which is nice as it seems much faster than spamassassin plugin).
However, when activating the plugin, it seems to be disabled, as all spams received will keep appearing in inbox, even if previous similar spams have been flagged already. (unless bogofilter was used prior to activating it in evolution)
This is because bogofilter only works by filtering spams once it has been trained with at least one good email, apparently.
Hopefully Evolution included a modification (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322105) allowing the flagging of legitimate emails as non-spam, to start training bogofilter. But still this is counter intuitive, and no piece of docs warns the user.
This is reported upstream already : http://people.altlinux.ru/~mhz/software/projects/bf-eplugin/README but that file is not present in the evolution package :(
Btw, to check the count of good/bad emails : $ bogoutil -w $HOME/.bogofilter/wordlist.db .MSG_COUNT
Please include some docs at least, or better, provide a way to automatically train bogofilter with an (empty) valid message.
Hope this helps,
Best regards,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-vserver-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages evolution depends on:
ii dbus 1.2.1-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii evolution-common 2.22.1-1 architecture independent files for
ii evolution-data-server 2.22.1-1 evolution database backend server
ii gconf2 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii gnome-icon-theme 2.22.0-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii gtkhtml3.14 3.18.1-1 HTML rendering/editing library - b
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-2 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.22.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.22.0-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.6.4-1+b1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcamel1.2-11 2.22.1-1 The Evolution MIME message handlin
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.74-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libebook1.2-9 2.22.1-1 Client library for evolution addre
ii libecal1.2-7 2.22.1-1 Client library for evolution calen
ii libedataserver1.2-9 2.22.1-1 Utility library for evolution data
ii libedataserverui1.2-8 2.22.1-1 GUI utility library for evolution
ii libegroupwise1.2-13 2.22.1-1 Client library for accessing group
ii libexchange-storage1.2 2.22.1-1 Client library for accessing Excha
ii libfontconfig1 2.5.0-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgconf2-4 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.3-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-pilot2 2.0.15-2.1 Support libraries for gnome-pilot
ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.22.0-2 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.9-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libgtkhtml3.14-19 3.18.1-1 HTML rendering/editing library - r
ii libhal1 0.5.11~rc2-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.7-6.2 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libnm-glib0 0.6.6-1 network management framework (GLib
ii libnotify1 [libnotify1 0.4.4-3 sends desktop notifications to a n
ii libnspr4-0d 4.7.0-2 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-1d 3.12.0~beta3-1 Network Security Service libraries
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.12-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.2-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpisock9 0.12.3-4 library for communicating with a P
ii libpisync1 0.12.3-4 synchronization library for PalmOS
ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
ii libsoup2.4-1 2.4.1-1 an HTTP library implementation in
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages evolution recommends:
ii bogofilter 1.1.6-2 a fast Bayesian spam filter (dummy
ii evolution-plugins 2.22.1-1 standard plugins for Evolution
ii evolution-webcal 2.21.92-1 webcal: URL handler for GNOME and
ii gnome-desktop-data 2.22.1-1 Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii gnome-pilot-conduits 2.0.15-1.2 conduits for gnome-pilot
ii spamassassin 3.2.4-1 Perl-based spam filter using text
ii yelp 2.20.0-2 Help browser for GNOME 2
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