[ale] stoopid evolution spam filter

[James P. Kinney III]

Has intelligence left the Linux world? (I hope not!!)

Evolution email client has the spam filtering built in now. And it works
pretty well. 

BUT!!

It uses spammassassin's spamd server for processing. And it seems to
like to open a new spamd child for each time it looks at a message.

The problem is it never closes the child.

E V E R

In fact, when it "fills up" it will open a new spamd parent process and
_it_ starts filling up the children. This is where inserting the "F"
work actually makes sense to describe the parent-child situation I am
seeing.

Add to this that evolution (as shipped with the geniuses at Fedora) has
other issues like crashing when you hit the reply button about every 3rd
or 4th time. So each crash will leave a spamd (and all 25 children)
running.

So on a dual Opteron machine w/2G ram after about a days worth of
"normal" email traffic, it feels like I'm running on a PII 200MHz w/64M
RAM.

Ximian was clearly working too hard to have that "look and feel" of
Outlook when the put out this version of Evolution.

Did I mention that FC4 went totally mental and used CVS versions of
pilot-link that were clearly labeled DO NOT USE and now the sync process
is totally broken.

Back tracking and recompiling leads to insanity in the perverted world
of rpm dependancy hell.

</rant>
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