On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 09:27:19PM +0100, Dennis Dryden wrote:
Sorry i forgot to say, I'm using Debian unstable and collecting the email from my ISP's pop3 server. Evolution doesn't seem to support filtering through procmail(im sure i remember seeing it but maybe that was in Balsa...).
An option would be to use a different program to collect your email like getmail or fetchmail and have them pass the mail onto Exim, then you have Exim do the spam checking for you (and you would probably want to integrate anti-virus into this) and then have Exim deliver the mail to an Imap server (dovecot springs to mind) then point Evolution at the Imap server, then if you want to change mail client in the future you don't have to worry about changing mailbox formats.
Although reading the above may sound a bit daunting there are plenty of how-tos online that will tell you how to achieve this (first result I found out of google was http://www.win.tue.nl/~martijna/Debianstuff/ I don't vouch for the quality of the information there). The other thing I would suggest if you went for this approach is to make sure you keep copies of your email on the pop server or take backups of it via a seperate mechanism just in case you break something and lose your email :)
Adam