On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 23:00 +1000, Ken Caldwell wrote: > I have recently installed a system on a spare computer using a Dapper > flite 7 CD. The default email client is Evolution which has a Junk > filter setting which depends, according to the help information, on > SpamAssassin which is not installed.
Spam filtering works with or without spamassin installed. There is a built in one that figure out that this item has been put in the spam folder and it puts copies in there automatically. I have no idea how good the matching is, I would suggest it is very simple. > Is this an oversight or is it intended that the user selects a suitable > filter after the basic installation is completed? Most users probably do not want the complexity and could not configure it anyway. I switch on the Optus spam filter and don't use one myself. I suffer the 30 odd per day that slip through. > (asking here as I think there are a few Ubuntu developers on this > list :-) Just a happy user of Ubuntu Dapper, it ROCKS :-) -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
