From 161a51e4dfb33d6cb2b445d14930a059a8568590 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Srinivasa Ragavan Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 09:06:19 +0000 Subject: Added bogofilter to Evolution. svn path=/trunk/; revision=33364 --- plugins/bogo-junk-plugin/README | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 plugins/bogo-junk-plugin/README (limited to 'plugins/bogo-junk-plugin/README') diff --git a/plugins/bogo-junk-plugin/README b/plugins/bogo-junk-plugin/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a14bcf6dda --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/bogo-junk-plugin/README @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Bogofilter plugin for Evolution + +This plugin implements junk filtering for the Evolution mailer, +provided by the bogofilter utility. Bogofilter (http://www.bogofilter.org) +if a fast and nimble mail filter using a so-called Bayesian technique to +classify junk and non-junk email. + +CAVEATS: + +For Evolution versions before 2.5.2, the definition file for the stock +junk filter plugin, 'org-gnome-sa-junk-plugin.eplug', must be removed +from the plugin directory to avoid conflict with any alternate junk plugin. +Simply disabling the SA plugin in the configuration won't help. +This is due to a flaw in the loading code for this hook type +(see GNOME bug #313096). + +To be able to classify emails as spam, bogofilter needs to have some +messages in its ham (non-spam) wordlist. This presents something of a +chicken-and-egg problem for Evolution, because it can feed messages +to the junk filter for learning as non-junk only after these messages have been +classified as junk and moved into a junk folder (GNOME bug #322105). +Thus, if you haven't got a pre-existing bogofilter database, you may need +to feed it some messages known to be non-junk, using its +command line utility: + +bogofilter -n < saved-ham-message + +Alternatively, you may use Spam Trainer, which is a GUI tool that supports +drag-and-drop from Evolution: + +http://spamtrainer.sourceforge.net/ + +Set it up to use bogofilter commands for training: + Ham command: bogofilter -n < %f + Spam command: bogofilter -s < %f -- cgit v1.2.3