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