Ubuntu
evolution package

antispam filter doesn't installed by default

Bug #13341 reported by Pablo J.
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Evolution
Fix Released
Medium
evolution (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

The evolution antispam filter doesn't work because of the fact that spamassassin
is (in fact) absolutely necessary for the normal function of that evolution
filter as you can see in the console outing below (1). However, spamassassin is
a recommended package actually and belongs to universe repositories. It causes a
general confusion in evolution users and nobody, anywhere is advised ..as far as
we (too many people) know.

Therefore, I think spamassassin ought to be a obligatory dependency of evolution.

1.
camel_junk_plugin_check_junk
em_junk_sa_check_junk
pipe_to_sa spamassassin --version
program not found, returning -1
junk filter => clean

(Title edited in order to be more clear that it's not another SA is not working duplicate)

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273041: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273041

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

An upstream bug about this: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=73041

We don't want to move sa to main and there is no other spam plugin for other
antispams

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273041 is the new upstream bug URL

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

*** Bug 24806 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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DanH (holmsand-gmail) wrote :

(In reply to comment #3)
> *** Bug 24806 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I don't quite agree that these are duplicates: this bug is about the fact that
spamassassin is missing from the default install - and/or that Evolution takes
spamassassin for granted.

The upstream bug is about missing error reporting in Evolution.

And 18678 is mostly about the fact that spam filtering is broken in evolution,
even if spamassassin is installed, due to the way it is configured in Ubuntu.

Three quite different issues, IMHO.

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Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Is this bug a duplicate of https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/4472 ?

Even with SA installed, spam filtering will not work. Both bugs are solved by the bogofilter plugin. (need to check a fresh installation to see if it is installed)

description: updated
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Changed in evolution:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Karianne Fog Heen (simira)
Changed in evolution:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Daniel Holbach (dholbach)
Changed in evolution:
assignee: seb128 → desktop-bugs
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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) wrote :

Thanks for this bug report, it seems to have helped fix the problem. On my install of Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) this bug no longer exists. Please reopen this bug if you disagree, and keep the bug reports coming in. I'm marking this bug as 'Fix Released'.

Changed in evolution:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Changed in evolution:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Changed in evolution:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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