I understand that IMAP will download only the header... what I was
asking is that if I enable spam filtering for the Inbox, will Evolution
be smart enough to download the entire message in order to check for
spam, or will it just not work unless I manually enable the downloading
of entire messages.
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 22:20 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 20:38 -0500, Caleb Marcus wrote:
> > I've gotten to the point where my email address is in so many places
> > online that I get one or two spam messages every day that Gmail
> > doesn't catch... when I used POP, SpamAssassin would catch everything,
> > but now that I use IMAP, I don't have spam filters applied... if I
> > check off the spam filtering in Inbox thingy in teh account settings,
> > will it automatically know to download the body, or will it just run
> > SpamAssassin on an empty message body?
> 
> I assume it will only download the header, which is why I suggested it.
> If Evo junk filtering is off for the Gmail account, it won't
> automatically run SpamAssassin for these messages and therefore won't
> download the bodies until you decide to read or preview them. Of course
> if you hit the Junk button I would expect Evo to download the message
> and run SA for learning purposes
> 
> POP is different because the entire message will always be downloaded,
> independantly of any filtering.
> 
> poc
> 
> > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 12:39 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> > > AFAIK, Evo caches the *headers*, unless you explicitely open the message
> > > of course, but note that applying junk filters may also imply
> > > downloading message bodies, since both SpamAssasin and Bogofilter do
> > > Bayesian analisis of the message text. Since Gmail has its own junk
> > > filtering, you might want to disable Evo junk filtering for your Gmail
> > > account. In fact Gmail recommends this.
> > > 
> > > Evo has no built-in way to encrypt the cache, though I guess a plugin
> > > could be written to do it. As others have said, you can always use other
> > > Linux tools for filesystem encryption.
> > > 
> > > poc
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 22:20 -0800, Ari El wrote:
> > > > Recently I discovered gmail's new IMAP feature. The next minute I was 
> > > > setting
> > > > evolution up to access my gmail account. I noticed evo's google/imap 
> > > > account
> > > > cached thousand of messages (some headers, some full messages), and also
> > > > found that the cache is made persistent even with me *not* selecting 
> > > > "mark
> > > > for offline reading". Meaning that if I close evo, then reopen, at 
> > > > first I
> > > > get asked for the imap server password, but even if I dont enter it, I 
> > > > can
> > > > see the full local cache of the imap folders and all recent message
> > > > contents.
> > > > 
> > > > I don't like this. 
> > > > 
> > > > Is there a way to force evo to encrypt the local cache (imap account and
> > > > also the exchage account if possible), so that I get asked for a 
> > > > password to
> > > > open the local cache (or better, the default gnome keyring could be 
> > > > used)?
> > > > any hint on how to do this?
> > > > 
> > > > TIA
> > > 
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