[kdepim-users] Conflict Notifiation: How do I get rid of this and it's accompaying "functionality"

[O. Sinclair]

On 13/12/11 06:52, John Wilson wrote:
> This'll be my first of what I think will be many messages about KMail 2.  And
> KAB, if this is the right place for that.
>
> Most of the KMail problems I'm encoutering is with the Message window, how
> it's orgranized and the loss of what was vital functionality for me.
>
> For now though it's the spam filter set up with spamassassin under the Mandriva
> 2012.  Every now and then a window pops up complaining about a conflict in
> classification.  I'm not sure quite where the conflict comes from but for now
> that's not important.
>
> The dialog box pops up, demands immediate attention then, as often as not
> vanishes into thin air.  Even when I do get a chance to look at what it's
> complaining about it's too small and too filled with nearly useless information
> until I can see just who the email is from.  (Or allegedly from.)
>
> As I subscribe to a large number of mailing lists and other similar entities
> this thing pops up all the time.  It also seems that it doesn't matter how
> many times I tell it to take the right window, I assume given the markup that
> that's the 'pass as ham" window because it lacks the SA additions I click that
> and things work fine.  UNLESS:
>
> If I leave it for 60 seconds or longer I click, it appears to do nothing and
> crashes KMail.  This isn't amusing as I may have left it that long because I
> was busy working on something else and SA's problems in the learning phase are
> frequent and often and usually overcome by reconfiguring it to be less
> agreesive, adding whitelists and all that stuff.
>
> The other issue with the dialog box is that all mail processing appears to
> stop entirely inclduing scheduled downloads of mail from my mail servers.
>
> Other than taking out the spam filter altogether just how do I turn this
> damned, useless, pointless dialog off?????
>
> I get somewhere like 100 emails an hour, the busiest time is overnight and I'm
> sleeping so I can't give it the attention it so deeply seems to need.  It
> crashes KMail every morning then the mail that stacked up overnight is
> imported, more dialogs appear and I get more and more frustrated.
>
> Incidentally the settings for SpamAssassin are far too agreesive when even a
> confirmation email from wikipedia is classified as spam with a score of 22.
> That simply shouldn't happen.  It's caused me lost emails, damaged a couple of
> relationships and simply provided stress levels I don't usually get with any
> other email client this side of Outlook.
>
> 1)  How do I get rid, once and for all of this dialog?
> 2) If it's part of the AS configuration file, just where did KMail put it
> because I can't find it in any of its past locations?
> 3) Is my only option do dump filtering for spam completely?
>
> Sorry for being snippy but this is the wrost part of KMail2 so far, after the
> fairly minor, in comparison, things I hate about the Message window and how
> that works (actually doesn't work!) ;-)
>
> KMail was, at least for me, the best, most efficent, fastest and easiest to
> configure mail programs I've used in years.  Now it's a slow lumbering beast
> that can't sort emails properly, has these silly yesterday,today, and all bars
> that I neither need or want (pretty as they are).
>
> I'm loathe to give it up but unless it's fixable it's toast.
>
> So let's try to fix it starting with this annoying dialog box.
>
Do you by any chance use 2 spam filters? I did, without any problems, in 
KMail1 but gave up on one of them in KMail2 for other reasons. Since 
then I have not seen the notification in question.

Sinclair
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