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diff --git a/help/C/usage-mail-org.xml b/help/C/usage-mail-org.xml index 0667ad08c3..f700e69103 100644 --- a/help/C/usage-mail-org.xml +++ b/help/C/usage-mail-org.xml @@ -485,8 +485,9 @@ </para> <para> The junk mail filter can "learn" which kinds of mail are - legitimate and which are not if you train it. When you first start using - junk mail blocking, check the <guilabel>Junk</guilabel> folder + legitimate and which are not if you train it. When you first + start using junk mail blocking, check the + <guilabel>Junk</guilabel> folder to be sure that legitimate mail doesn't get flagged as junk mail. If good mail, also known as "ham," is mis-flagged, remove it from the <guilabel>Junk</guilabel> folder by right-clicking @@ -500,9 +501,72 @@ To change your junk mail filtering preferences, select <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Settings</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> and click the <guilabel>Mail Preferences</guilabel> button. In the mail preferences tool, select the - <guilabel>Junk</guilabel> tab. <!-- FIXME: expand when available --> + <guilabel>Junk</guilabel> tab. Here, you have several options: + </para> + + <variablelist> + <varlistentry> + <term>Check Incoming Mail</term> + <listitem> + <para> + This option turns automatic junk mail filtering on or off. </para> - </sect1> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term>Do Not Check Incoming Mail for IMAP Accounts</term> + <listitem> + <para> + Evolution must download mail to determine whether it is junk + mail, so junk mail filtering can slow IMAP performance as it + downloads every message in its entirity. To turn filtering off + for IMAP mail, but leave it on for other mail accounts, select + this box. + </para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term>Local Tests Only</term> + <listitem> + <para> + This option skips tests that require a network connection, + such as checking to see if a message is in a list of known + junk messages, or if the sender or gateway are blacklisted by + anti-spam organizations. Selecting this option will increase + the speed of operation, but may decrease accuracy. + </para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term>Use Daemon</term> + <listitem> + <para> + If you select this option, Evolution will try to use the mail + filtering daemon <command>spamd</command> if it is available. + Using the daemon can improve filtering speed, but the daemon + must already be running. Starting a daemon normally requires + root privileges, but you may be able to use it as non-root, + depending on your OS and configuration. + </para> + <para> + You can can start spamd with the command + <command>/etc/init.d/spamd start</command>, or if you prefer, + have it started automatically by editing your system services + (for SUSE systems, this is the "Runlevel Editor" in + YAST). More traditional UNIX users, of course, know how + to put links to the initialization script in the + <command>/etc/rc5.d/</command> or <command>/etc/rc3.d</command> + directory. + </para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + +</variablelist> +</sect1> + <sect1 id="usage-mail-organize-filters"> |