[Evolution-users] spam filter still active - solved

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2026-04-22 at 19:46 +0200, Wolf Drechsel wrote:
> Quite some time ago I reported evolution "playing ping-pong" with
> non-
> SPAM (HAM) messages. After I manually flagged them as HAM, they would
> frequently move back and forward between my inbox and the SPAM
> folder.
> 
> After lots of thorough analysis, patiently carried out by valued
> fellow
> @Milan, we found that evolution was not the problem.
> 
> In fact, my mobile phone was. Some months ago I switched to
> "FairEmail"
> Pro, which as well incorporates SPAM handling. Switching the phone
> off
> immediately solved the problem - restarting it reliably brought it
> back. When I then flagged HAM in the SPAM folder as HAM manually,
> behaviour went stable. Actually, with some messages, this required
> several attempts.
> 
> So - whenever somebody may experience strange behaviour in SPAM
> handling - try to switch off your mobile phone, this may help
> eventually.
> 
> Thanks for all thoughts and help,
> Wolf 

This is useful info, but it would have been much better to post it as a
reply to your original post, adding ' - SOLVED' to the Subject line.
That's fairly standard practice on mailing lists because it keeps the
problem and solution together in the same thread.

poc