[Dovecot] Evolution Slowness Fix

Kenneth Porter
Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:03:10 -0000

--On Friday, January 21, 2005 3:19 PM -0600 Michael David Joy
<mdjoy at phy.olemiss.edu> wrote:

> It seems that Evolution has defaulted to checked for spam server side
> using Spamd on Fedora Core 3 without downloading the mail. It seems that
> spamd is the culprit in all this as it's trying to analyze pop3 mail
> without simply downloading all the new mail.

How's it doing that? Is it invoking spamc after each pop3 fetch
client-side? Or is it somehow getting Dovecot to do it on the server side?

I normally run SA from sendmail via MIMEDefang to reject the most egregious
spam (score higher than 10) and viruses and then run SA again from
/etc/procmailrc to mark "probable" spam (scores between 5 and 10)
during
delivery into my IMAP folders. (I could do it all in MD but my load is
small enough that it hasn't been worth the coding effort.)