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authorAaron Weber <aaron@ximian.com>2004-01-28 06:40:22 +0800
committerAaron Weber <aaron@src.gnome.org>2004-01-28 06:40:22 +0800
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spamfiltering charsets and input methods. assign copyright to Novell, add
2004-01-27 Aaron Weber <aaron@ximian.com> * C/usage-mail-org.xml: spamfiltering * C/usage-mail.xml: charsets and input methods. * C/evolution-1.5.xml: assign copyright to Novell, add 2004. * C/legal.xml: Novell/XImian switcheroo svn path=/trunk/; revision=24480
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</para>
<para>
The junk mail filter can "learn" which kinds of mail are
- legitimate and which are not if you train it. When you first start using
- junk mail blocking, check the <guilabel>Junk</guilabel> folder
+ legitimate and which are not if you train it. When you first
+ start using junk mail blocking, check the
+ <guilabel>Junk</guilabel> folder
to be sure that legitimate mail doesn't get flagged as junk
mail. If good mail, also known as "ham," is mis-flagged, remove
it from the <guilabel>Junk</guilabel> folder by right-clicking
@@ -500,9 +501,72 @@
To change your junk mail filtering preferences, select <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Settings</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice> and click the <guilabel>Mail Preferences</guilabel>
button. In the mail preferences tool, select the
- <guilabel>Junk</guilabel> tab. <!-- FIXME: expand when available -->
+ <guilabel>Junk</guilabel> tab. Here, you have several options:
+ </para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Check Incoming Mail</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option turns automatic junk mail filtering on or off.
</para>
- </sect1>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Do Not Check Incoming Mail for IMAP Accounts</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Evolution must download mail to determine whether it is junk
+ mail, so junk mail filtering can slow IMAP performance as it
+ downloads every message in its entirity. To turn filtering off
+ for IMAP mail, but leave it on for other mail accounts, select
+ this box.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Local Tests Only</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option skips tests that require a network connection,
+ such as checking to see if a message is in a list of known
+ junk messages, or if the sender or gateway are blacklisted by
+ anti-spam organizations. Selecting this option will increase
+ the speed of operation, but may decrease accuracy.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Use Daemon</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If you select this option, Evolution will try to use the mail
+ filtering daemon <command>spamd</command> if it is available.
+ Using the daemon can improve filtering speed, but the daemon
+ must already be running. Starting a daemon normally requires
+ root privileges, but you may be able to use it as non-root,
+ depending on your OS and configuration.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ You can can start spamd with the command
+ <command>/etc/init.d/spamd start</command>, or if you prefer,
+ have it started automatically by editing your system services
+ (for SUSE systems, this is the "Runlevel Editor" in
+ YAST). More traditional UNIX users, of course, know how
+ to put links to the initialization script in the
+ <command>/etc/rc5.d/</command> or <command>/etc/rc3.d</command>
+ directory.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+</sect1>
+
<sect1 id="usage-mail-organize-filters">