Re: [SLUG] Spamassassin score and evolution

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Fri Mar 28 2008 - 16:36:29 EST


On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:36:39AM -0400, Larry Brown wrote:

> Does anyone know of a good way to filter by Spamassassin score in
> Evolution? For some reason my MailScanner implimentation is marking
> messages as spam even through their score is less than 6 which is what
> the config is set to and what the mail header shows to be the limit.
> I'd rather simply change where the decision is made as to whether it is
> spam to my client where I can dump if score > 4 etc. The score option
> in Evolution was determined to be an internal score that Evolution keeps
> within its filters, not the score set by spamassassin.
>
> Anyway, anyone help would be appreciated.
>
> TIA,
>
> Larry
>

I don't know much about Evolution, but if it's like most GUI email
clients, it doesn't play well with things like procmail, since it wants
full control of email folders and such. (Thunderbird has issues along
this line, which is one reason I went back to Mutt.)

Check the headers on email which has been through spamassassin and been
judged as spam. You should see some headers which are clearly from
spamassassin, and they will show a score, either as a number or a number
of stars, etc. In Evolution, you *should* be able to filter on the
content of a header line. So, if the header is "X-Spam-Score", then you
should be able to tell Evolution that when it sees this header, with a
value of ****, then dump it in a spam folder, delete it, etc.

Paul

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