Evolution deleting mail before I get a chance to read it!!

x1um1n

Hi, apologies if this has already dealt with, but I can't find it anywhere..

I'm having issues with evo on Gnome 2.10, it keeps deleting mail from my POP server without downloading it first!!
As you can imagine, this is pretty damn annoying.. It doesn't do it all of the time, but there doesn't seem to be any pattern to it either..

Initially I thought it was spamassassin, but I unmerged it & still evo deletes mail!

please help, I don't want to go back to thunderbird

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adaptr · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 1:21 pm Post subject:

Unmerging spamassassin won't remove the procmail rules that sort out the spam - unless evolution uses spamassassin directly ?
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x1um1n · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 1:29 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure, its never something I've had to sort out before as I've never run my own mailserver, I always pick one that has spam filtering at the server end.
I didn't even know evo used spamassassin until I encountered this prob & started investigating..

Evo depends on spamassassin, so I assme it does use it?

Like I said, I've never had to sort this sort of stuff out before in 8yrs of running *nix..

Where does procmail store its rules? Is there a howto with some syntax?
cheers
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adaptr · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:02 pm Post subject:

If evolution doesn't call spamassassin directly then it probably uses your own ~/.procmailrc - check that.
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x1um1n · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:11 pm Post subject:

hmm, don't appear to have one, neither in ~ nor a global one in /etc
and there's no man or texinfo pages for procmail either..

maybe evo keeps its own rules in its config dir?
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x1um1n · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:18 pm Post subject:

nope, nothin there either..
well, nothin relevant at least

I don't understand how it can be doin this!?!
It did the exact same thing on ubuntu as well, one of the reasons I switched back..
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