Comment 26 for bug 9870

As a user, I'm more than happy to train my own spam filter. For me, this is perfectly understandable and reasonable. Problem is, I've been trying to train Evolution in Dapper for months now and it still lets a preposterously large amount of spam through. What a patsy of a spam tool! And yes, I have configured the right options in Evolution.

I took an hour today to research and work on better spam filtering tools. I chose bogofilter. I installed it, (using aptitude) read the manual, and trained it by hand on the command line using both spam and good messages I've accumulated over the last few months. These steps all worked fine.

But integrating bogofilter with Evolution was a most confusing experience, and even now I'm still not sure I've got it right.

Integrating spam tools with email is where a good distribution like Ubuntu really _should_ come through. Make it a humane experience to hook up the spam filter, and we humans will happily train our own.

Best!
todd