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Junk mail not being identified

Asked by Ben Linker

Junk mail is never identified in evolution 2.4.1. I have marked possibly hundreds of messages as junk over the past few days since Breezy badger was installed, but not once has the system done it itself. The option is turned on in edit/preferences/mail preferences/junk. It was suggested that I install spamassassin, which I did but this had no effect. I have also checked the option in Evolution mail preferences/Junk to include remote tests, but that made no difference either.

(Not that it is probably relevant, but in desparation I installed Thunderbird, and immediately it correctly identified 95% of the junk mail with no problems)
According to update manager everything is at its latest version

Ben

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Ben Linker (ben-linker) said : 		#1

Calendaring/raks should have read calendaring/tasks!

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M Willis Monroe (willismonroe) said : 		#2

do you have spamassain installed? are you using evolution? are you marking them as junk in evolution?

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Mika (lopez-michael) said : 		#3

It's exactly the same issue for me, option is checked in evolution and i marked a lot of spam to train it but it doesn't work anymore.
if spamassassin is missing, why is it not automatically installed by evolution as a dependency ?

cheers,
Michael.

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Ben Linker (ben-linker) said : 		#4

Am using Evolution - Spamassain was not installed - I have just installed it and no difference as yet - can't spot it on any menu so far though (although not rebooted yet). I will continue marking as spam in Evolution .... if there is any change I will update this, otherwise other suggestions welcome!

Ben

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Ratdude (ratman) said : 		#5

Had the same problem, worked fine in a previous version.
Fire up synaptic package manager and see if you have evolution-plugins installed ( I didn't )
not mentioned in the description, but it adds the Sa junk plugin that "talks" to spamd ( spamassassin ). All this is assuming Spamassassin is alive and well on your system.

Ratdude

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Benjamin Goodger (goodgerster-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#6

Have you tried Mozilla Thunderbird? In my opinion it's superior to Evolution anyway, and doesn't force you to muck about with Spamassasin..

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