[Evolution] Bug#547689: Bug#547689: Evolution doesn't "purge" messages (headers) that have been found to be spam by the news provider.

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Mon Sep 21 14:58:46 UTC 2009


Lars Rune Nøstdal wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote:
>> Lars Rune Nøstdal wrote:
>>> Package: evolution
>>> Version: 2.26.3-2
>>>
>>> Evolution doesn't "purge" messages (headers) that have been found to
>>> be spam by the news provider. I've found no way to do this even
>>> manually; doing 'Refresh' has no effect.
>>>
>>> I can tell that the news provider has figured out that the message
>>> really is (was) spam, because when I try to fetch the body I get an
>>> "Unable to retrieve message" message.
>>>
>>> I've attached a screenshot, and here is a link to it:
>>> http://nostdal.org/lnostdal/always-here/evolution-spam.png (server
>>> might not always be up).
>> It doesnt look like spam filtering. You're on a NEWS/NNTP account and some
>> posts may have expired or something.
> 
> Nope, these come rolling in at the top (I have new messages sorted by
> date at the top). I can see them on the Google Groups web interface
> for a little (or sometimes longer...) while before they are removed
> based on people marking stuff as spam.

Hmh ok. I don't really know how NNTP stuf works, tbh.
> 
>> It's not spam related. Maybe try to
>> expunge folders, or maybe check in the help how to manage news accounts.
> 
> Expunge has no effect; the messages aren't really deleted  (on my end).

What if you manually delete them?

-- 
Yves-Alexis





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