Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evolution
This bug is related to, but not identical to, #37878. It is more like a number of bugs, but I am finding it very hard to distinguish one from another. 1. I installed dapper and spam filtering did not work. 2. I found that bogofilter wasn't installed, even though I had understood that evolution shipped with bogofilter enabled. So I installed it. Then I made sure bogofilter was enabled and spamassassin disabled in edit->plugins. It still didn't work. 3. I started evolution from the command line and found the messages less than clear (another bug I think), but what I did get was something like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ evolution CalDAV Eplugin starting up ... (evolution-2.6:5162): evolution-mail-WARNING **: ignored this junk plugin: not enabled or we have already loaded one (evolution-2.6:5162): e-utils-WARNING **: Plugin 'Spamassassin junk plugin' failed to load hook 'org.gnome.evolution.mail.junk:1.0' Which plugin is being ignored? It's not at all clear, but obviously something isn't working. But shouldn't a user-friendly application show a warning message in the GUI instead of waiting for you to launch it from the command line in order to show you a few half-baked messages? If you are used to how Thunderbird behaves you could take a very long time to realise that the spam filter wasn't actually active or learning anything. 4. I found on the web a bug report for evolution saying that you needed, at some point in evolution's evolution, to have spamassassin installed in order for evolution to ignore it properly and use bogofilter. So I tried installing spamassassin and all its dependencies, but it made no difference. Evolution froze, got killed and restarted, then froze again, this time quickly followed by X (running the nvidia propietary legacy driver) and/or the kernel, which forced me to hit the reset button before I could make a note of where that old gnome bug report was located. I've no idea whether the system freeze was in any way connected, but the two evolution freezes did appear to be related to me having just installed spamassassin, even though spamassassin was at the time, as I have already said, disabled in edit->plugins. 5. For all I know, bogofilter could actually be working now after all my fiddling about, but I have no way of telling for sure without waiting quite a long time. ** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- evolution ships with spam filtering completely mangled https://launchpad.net/bugs/62192 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs