Evolution is missing bogofilter integration

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Thank you Mauricio.
I'm now the '1 other person' affected.
( but I bet there's lots more )

Mauricio,

If you still want bogofilter I stumbled on the followinf link:
http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-evolution-3-11-1-on-ubuntu-13-10-saucy-salamander-and-linux-mint-16-petra-via-ppa/

Then under Edit->Preferences->Mail Preferences->Junk you should find a drop-down for 'junk filtering software'.

Good luck...

p.s. I suggest you first 'apt-get purge evolution spamassassin' to avoid dependency issues.

In 14.04 it's also missing. I really like bogofilter a lot better than spamassassin, which is really slow compared to bogofilter.

Please add this support! I see no point in omitting it; it's just a configure flag (and having bogofilter installed at build time). Bogofilter is much nicer than SA IMO.

For more info from the Evo developer: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2014-May/msg00010.html

Missing here as well.

I have the same problem. When remove spamassassin:

Error while performing operation.

Failed to spawn SpamAssassin (/usr/bin/sa-learn --spam --no-sync --local): Failed to execute child process "/usr/bin/sa-learn" (No such file or directory)

I did not write that use Ubuntu 14.04 and evolution 3.10.4
I remove bogofilter :-(
But spamassasin not work perfectly :-(
I that I can help?

Bogofilter is missing in Ubuntu 14.04, Evolution 3.10.4 - it is installed, but Evolution can't use it. Please re-enable it so that my filter will start working again. SpamAssassin is not doing nearly as good a job as bogofilter - learning has proven very slow in comparison. Isn't linux all about choice?? Please give me a choice here...

Ditto on the problem. I innocently upgraded to 14.04 expecting it to be better, only to find that someone decided that I shouldn't want to use Bogofilter.

It seams support for bogofilter was disabled because bogofilter package was moved to Universe:

http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/e/evolution/evolution_3.12.4-0ubuntu1/changelog

I have subscribed Iain Lane (https://launchpad.net/~laney) to the bug since apparently he is the one who can shed some light on this bug... hopefuly

Package lacks /usr/lib/evolution/3.12/modules/module-bogofilter.so

The problem is that Ubuntu disables bogofilter in Evolution at build time passing --disable-bogofilter. This makes libevolution not to include module-bogofilter.so which goes in /usr/lib/evolution/3.12/modules/ directory.

A workaround is to download libevolution package directly from Debian. For Ubuntu 14.10:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/libevolution

I'm a happy bogofilter user once again!!!

Evolution has become very very unresponsive since upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04. (I have an old Atom netbook.) And many good mails are classified as spam now (that didn't happen before). And many spam mails are classified as good. I'm trying to correct this, but the manual classification seems not to improve the situation.

After googling today, the reason seems to be that bogofilter is inactive and spamassasin is active. I can confirm this having a look at .spamassasin and .bogofilter files age. This is a bad situation, and complicates everyday work.

I too would like to have bogofilter returned as a filter option. I have been using it for years and it is, at this point, well trained for me.

Having to retrain spam-assassin is a pain. Spam-Assassin is also is a much slower.

Please, please, please re-add Bogofilter to the package so I stop having to build my own version every time I do an update of packages on my Linux Mint (Ubuntu based) system.

I believe this can be fixed with a simple patch to the rules file in the Evolution Ubuntu package: if we set the BOGOFILTER environment variable before we run configure then whatever value it has will be used during the build without checking, and at runtime if the program exists the plugin will be enabled (and if not it won't be).

The attachment "Enable bogofilter plugin for Evolution" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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Hm. It seems that newer versions of Evolution have completely removed support for runtime detection of the underlying spam filtering facility in the plugin, so my simple patch in comment #18 is not sufficient and more work is needed.

See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743109 for more information.

Milan Crha has posted a fix for the next release of Evolution, which may or may not be straightforward to cherry-pick back to the current release.

See: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743109

and: https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?id=0b91d60

Is there any hope that the bogofilter fix will be backported to 14.04?

Well, first it has to get fixed in Ubuntu, in any version: currently there's no fix even in the upcoming 15.04.

Once that happens we can talk about whether it's possible to backport it.

Just for completeness I'm adding the patch used to fix this issue upstream.

>Well, first it has to get fixed in Ubuntu, in any version: currently there's no fix even in the upcoming 15.04.

>Once that happens we can talk about whether it's possible to backport it.

Is it possible to get this on Ubuntu's radar?

If you know of another way, than filing a bug like this one, I urge you to pursue it...

On Sun, 2015-03-01 at 21:14 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> If you know of another way, than filing a bug like this one, I urge you
> to pursue it...
>
> ** Tags added: patch
>

That begs the question.

This bug was fixed in the package evolution - 3.12.11-0ubuntu3

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evolution (3.12.11-0ubuntu3) vivid; urgency=medium

  * 0001-Bug-743109-Do-not-require-spam-software-during-build.patch:
    Cherry-pick from upstream. No need to require anti-spam software to be
    present at build time. (LP: #1247366)
    + Enable both spamassassin and bogofilter now.
 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:50:22 +0000

Thank you Iain! Is there any possibility this can get backported to 14.04? As an LTS release, it would be REALLY nice to have this fix there too... I think this patch applies cleanly to 3.11 as well as 3.12.

I second Paul's request to backport this to 14.04. I'd hate to have to either wait for 16.04 or take my chances with building or installing the latest Evolution.

I would like to see a backport to 14.04 as I'd prefer not to have to wait for the next LTS.