[ale] Evolution Junk mail filter

[Raylynn A Knight]

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 01:43 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 22:59 -0400, Raylynn A Knight wrote:
> > I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 7.04 by doing a clean install.  I have
> > been
> > running Ubuntu since 5.04 and have previously just run the update.
> > This
> > time I thought it would be a good time for a clean install.
> > Everything
> > is working fine except Evolution.  I can't seem to get the junk
> > filtering to work at all.  Both 'Check incoming mail for junk' and
> > 'Include remote tests' are checked in the Evolution Preferences.
> > However, absolutely nothing makes it into the Junk folder.  I now
> > have
> > more Spam for male enhancement crap in my Inbox than real email.  
> > 
> > How do I get the junk filter to actually do some filtering? 
> 
> I've been doing it manually on the client-side (e.g., with Evolution).
> But not much gets past my server-side Spam filters, so I don't use it
> that much.
> 
> One thing that I have noticed, is lots of messages in
> ~/.xsession-errors regarding something called bogofilter missing.  You
> might want to check to see if you have anything showing up in
> ~/.xsession-errors that might pinpoint the problem.
> 
>     ? Mike
That was the problem!!  

rayk at AthlonXP2200:~$ less .xsession-errors 

(evolution-2.10:21950): bf-junk-filter-WARNING **: error occurred while
spawning
 /usr/bin/bogofilter: Failed to execute child process
"/usr/bin/bogofilter" (No such file or directory)

rayk at AthlonXP2200:~$ ls /usr/bin/bogofilter
ls: /usr/bin/bogofilter: No such file or directory
rayk at AthlonXP2200:~$ whereis bogofilter
bogofilter:
rayk at AthlonXP2200:~$ apt-cache search bogofilter
bogofilter - a fast Bayesian spam filter (dummy package)
bogofilter-bdb - a fast Bayesian spam filter (Berkeley DB)
bogofilter-common - a fast Bayesian spam filter (common files)
bogofilter-sqlite - a fast Bayesian spam filter (sqlite)
etpan-ng - console mail user agent based on libEtPan!
ifile - a text/e-mail/spam filter capable of learning
sylpheed-claws-gtk2-bogofilter - Bogofilter plugin for Sylpheed-Claws
GTK2
rayk at AthlonXP2200:~$ sudo apt-get install bogofilter
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  bogofilter-bdb bogofilter-common libgsl0
Suggested packages:
  pax db4.4-util gsl-ref-psdoc gsl-doc-pdf gsl-ref-html
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bogofilter bogofilter-bdb bogofilter-common libgsl0
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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