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  1. Bug #62192
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 62192

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Alex Fraser (alex-phatcore) wrote :

I was getting a similar error:

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(evolution-2.8:18041): evolution-mail-WARNING **: ignored this junk plugin: not enabled or we have already loaded one

(evolution-2.8:18041): e-utils-WARNING **: Plugin 'Bogofilter junk plugin' failed to load hook 'org.gnome.evolution.mail.junk:1.0'
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I think the spam plugins conflict with each other, so having both enabled doesn't work (even if you don't have spamassassin installed). To fix it, disable the spamassassin plugin. So the steps are:

1. Install bogofilter.
2. Disable the spamassassin plugin in Evolution / Edit / Plugins.
3. Restart Evolution.
4. Mark some messages as Junk (this initialises the bogofilter database).
5(?) You may need to mark one message as NOT junk before it works. I'm not sure about this.

Once the database ($HOME/.bogofilter/wordlist.db) has been created, you should be able to confirm that it works by running `bogofilter` from the command line. If it sits waiting for input, it's working.

I agree that the feedback from Evolution is poor. If spam filtering is broken, it should at least pop up an error when clicking on the Mark As Junk button. Otherwise the user will think that it has worked, and won't understand why their messages aren't being filtered. Ideally it could offer to download install bogofilter.