Bug 288109 - spam filters not working - workaround found but should be fixed
Summary: spam filters not working - workaround found but should be fixed
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Akonadi
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: Mail Filter Agent (show other bugs)
Version: 4.7
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2011-12-03 07:39 UTC by Orion
Modified: 2012-07-06 09:13 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Version Fixed In: 4.9


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Description Orion 2011-12-03 07:39:19 UTC
Version:           4.7 (using KDE 4.7.3) 
OS:                Linux

spam filter using spam wizard will not work. have tried spambayes and crm114. Workaround found to make filters look "anywhere in headers" instead of specific headar for spam filter

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
use spam filter wizard. Monitor incoming mail. 

Actual Results:  
Spam filter applied but no action taken

Expected Results:  
spam filter to work

workaround: manually modify spam filters to look "anywhere in headers" for spam grading. Works. spam filters looking for X-Spam header does not
Comment 1 András Manţia 2011-12-10 07:37:08 UTC
I'd be glad if you could try to reproduce with 4.8beta2.  If you cannot, please test again once 4.8.0 final is out. At least for me spam filtering based on specific headers work with 4.8 beta.
Comment 2 Orion 2011-12-11 05:50:09 UTC
I would be happy to, if nothing else I guess I could run it in virtual machine. Where do I find the code and how do I compile? Not my "normal" activities so a few pointers in the right direction would be welcome
Comment 3 András Manţia 2011-12-11 06:17:57 UTC
4.8beta2 was announced a few days ago, sources are here: http://www.kde.org/info/4.7.90.php .
But I'd recommend to search for binary packages for your distribution, if you never compiled KDE from source.

I don't know other distros, but openSUSE provides binaries: http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Unstable:SC_aka._KUSC_.28KDE_trunk.29
Comment 4 Orion 2011-12-11 06:55:06 UTC
Unfortunately Kubuntu is not that forthcoming so I will wait for 4.7.4 or 4.8 and test again. Btw I use spambayes, not bogofilter, as I think it is better. But crm114 had the same behaviour and on top of it decided everything was spam... apparently the 64bit version is botched
Comment 5 András Manţia 2012-07-04 15:36:04 UTC
Git commit d64d61b470c56b92294f6adee6d74305a217628d by Andras Mantia.
Committed on 04/07/2012 at 17:35.
Pushed by amantia into branch 'master'.

A biggish refactoring of the filter functionality:

1) Do not take the items from the cache only, as they might be incomplete (especially in online imap case, but not only).
This should fix the body loss bug on spam filtering.(Bug 287752 and similar ones + countless of reports on user list)
Might fix 293768.

2) Download only what is really needed for the filter and add safety checks that
the mail is not modified if the requested part is missing. So far the distinction
was only betwee the body and rest. This should speed up filtering.
Also related to 287752, but should fix also 292283, 288109.

3) Rename qDebug->kDebug + fix some includes

4) The code should also fix the duplicate mails appearing after filtering (some of the duplicates
with empty content), eg. 275233

All bug reporters: in case you still see the bug, reopen the corresponding one.
For the reports that were CC'd, but not closed, please try to reproduce and tell
the result.

So far the bug is fixed on master, but might be backported later to 4.9.
Related: bug 287752, bug 292283, bug 286043, bug 295484, bug 302337, bug 295000, bug 295684, bug 293768, bug 275233, bug 293918, bug 284310, bug 286364, bug 283682

M  +7    -11   kmail/kmcommands.cpp
M  +10   -7    kmail/kmcommands.h
M  +1    -1    kmail/kmmainwidget.cpp
M  +1    -5    mailcommon/filter/filteraction.cpp
M  +6    -5    mailcommon/filter/filteraction.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionaddheader.cpp
M  +2    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionaddheader.h
M  +2    -2    mailcommon/filter/filteractionaddtag.cpp
M  +1    -1    mailcommon/filter/filteractionaddtag.h
M  +9    -3    mailcommon/filter/filteractionaddtoaddressbook.cpp
M  +2    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionaddtoaddressbook.h
M  +7    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionbeep.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionbeep.h
M  +18   -1    mailcommon/filter/filteractioncopy.cpp
M  +7    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractioncopy.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractiondelete.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractiondelete.h
M  +5    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionexec.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionexec.h
M  +5    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionforward.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionforward.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionmove.cpp
M  +2    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionmove.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionpipethrough.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionpipethrough.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionplaysound.cpp
M  +2    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionplaysound.h
M  +5    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionredirect.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionredirect.h
M  +6    -1    mailcommon/filter/filteractionremoveheader.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionremoveheader.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionreplyto.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionreplyto.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionrewriteheader.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionrewriteheader.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionsendfakedisposition.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionsendfakedisposition.h
M  +8    -2    mailcommon/filter/filteractionsendreceipt.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionsendreceipt.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionsetidentity.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionsetidentity.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionsetstatus.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionsetstatus.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionsettransport.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionsettransport.h
M  +5    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionstatus.cpp
M  +2    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionstatus.h
M  +5    -2    mailcommon/filter/filteractionunsetstatus.cpp
M  +2    -1    mailcommon/filter/filteractionunsetstatus.h
M  +4    -4    mailcommon/filter/filterimporter/filterimporterevolution.cpp
M  +1    -1    mailcommon/filter/filterimporter/filterimporterprocmail.cpp
M  +1    -1    mailcommon/filter/filterimporter/filterimportersylpheed.cpp
M  +2    -2    mailcommon/filter/filtermanager.cpp
M  +2    -8    mailcommon/filter/filtermanager.h
M  +8    -2    mailcommon/filter/itemcontext.cpp
M  +8    -1    mailcommon/filter/itemcontext.h
M  +10   -17   mailcommon/filter/kmfilterdialog.cpp
M  +2    -1    mailcommon/filter/kmfilterdialog.h
M  +25   -8    mailcommon/filter/mailfilter.cpp
M  +4    -3    mailcommon/filter/mailfilter.h
M  +48   -20   mailcommon/searchpattern.cpp
M  +34   -11   mailcommon/searchpattern.h
M  +1    -1    mailcommon/tests/searchpatterntest.cpp
M  +78   -47   mailfilteragent/filtermanager.cpp
M  +10   -8    mailfilteragent/filtermanager.h
M  +8    -6    mailfilteragent/mailfilteragent.cpp
M  +3    -0    mailfilteragent/mailfilteragent.h

http://commits.kde.org/kdepim/d64d61b470c56b92294f6adee6d74305a217628d
Comment 6 András Manţia 2012-07-05 11:40:39 UTC
Git commit e3a03f1d704838a9ced4ff41358785392774ae69 by Andras Mantia.
Committed on 04/07/2012 at 17:35.
Pushed by amantia into branch 'KDE/4.9'.

(Backport filter fix from master)

A biggish refactoring of the filter functionality:

1) Do not take the items from the cache only, as they might be incomplete (especially in online imap case, but not only).
This should fix the body loss bug on spam filtering.(Bug 287752 and similar ones + countless of reports on user list)
Might fix 293768.

2) Download only what is really needed for the filter and add safety checks that
the mail is not modified if the requested part is missing. So far the distinction
was only betwee the body and rest. This should speed up filtering.
Also related to 287752, but should fix also 292283, 288109.

3) Rename qDebug->kDebug + fix some includes

4) The code should also fix the duplicate mails appearing after filtering (some of the duplicates
with empty content), eg. 275233

All bug reporters: in case you still see the bug, reopen the corresponding one.
For the reports that were CC'd, but not closed, please try to reproduce and tell
the result.

So far the bug is fixed on master, but might be backported later to 4.9.
Related: bug 287752, bug 292283, bug 286043, bug 295484, bug 302337, bug 295000, bug 295684, bug 293768, bug 275233, bug 293918, bug 284310, bug 286364, bug 283682
(cherry picked from commit d64d61b470c56b92294f6adee6d74305a217628d)

FIXED-IN: 4.9

M  +7    -11   kmail/kmcommands.cpp
M  +10   -7    kmail/kmcommands.h
M  +1    -1    kmail/kmmainwidget.cpp
M  +1    -5    mailcommon/filter/filteraction.cpp
M  +6    -5    mailcommon/filter/filteraction.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionaddheader.cpp
M  +2    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionaddheader.h
M  +2    -2    mailcommon/filter/filteractionaddtag.cpp
M  +1    -1    mailcommon/filter/filteractionaddtag.h
M  +9    -3    mailcommon/filter/filteractionaddtoaddressbook.cpp
M  +2    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionaddtoaddressbook.h
M  +7    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionbeep.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionbeep.h
M  +18   -1    mailcommon/filter/filteractioncopy.cpp
M  +7    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractioncopy.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractiondelete.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractiondelete.h
M  +5    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionexec.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionexec.h
M  +5    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionforward.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionforward.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionmove.cpp
M  +2    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionmove.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionpipethrough.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionpipethrough.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionplaysound.cpp
M  +2    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionplaysound.h
M  +5    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionredirect.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionredirect.h
M  +6    -1    mailcommon/filter/filteractionremoveheader.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionremoveheader.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionreplyto.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionreplyto.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionrewriteheader.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionrewriteheader.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionsendfakedisposition.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionsendfakedisposition.h
M  +8    -2    mailcommon/filter/filteractionsendreceipt.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionsendreceipt.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionsetidentity.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionsetidentity.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionsetstatus.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionsetstatus.h
M  +6    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionsettransport.cpp
M  +1    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionsettransport.h
M  +5    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionstatus.cpp
M  +2    -0    mailcommon/filter/filteractionstatus.h
M  +5    -2    mailcommon/filter/filteractionunsetstatus.cpp
M  +2    -1    mailcommon/filter/filteractionunsetstatus.h
M  +4    -4    mailcommon/filter/filterimporter/filterimporterevolution.cpp
M  +1    -1    mailcommon/filter/filterimporter/filterimporterprocmail.cpp
M  +1    -1    mailcommon/filter/filterimporter/filterimportersylpheed.cpp
M  +2    -2    mailcommon/filter/filtermanager.cpp
M  +2    -8    mailcommon/filter/filtermanager.h
M  +8    -2    mailcommon/filter/itemcontext.cpp
M  +8    -1    mailcommon/filter/itemcontext.h
M  +10   -17   mailcommon/filter/kmfilterdialog.cpp
M  +2    -1    mailcommon/filter/kmfilterdialog.h
M  +25   -8    mailcommon/filter/mailfilter.cpp
M  +4    -3    mailcommon/filter/mailfilter.h
M  +48   -20   mailcommon/searchpattern.cpp
M  +34   -11   mailcommon/searchpattern.h
M  +1    -1    mailcommon/tests/searchpatterntest.cpp
M  +78   -47   mailfilteragent/filtermanager.cpp
M  +10   -8    mailfilteragent/filtermanager.h
M  +8    -6    mailfilteragent/mailfilteragent.cpp
M  +3    -0    mailfilteragent/mailfilteragent.h

http://commits.kde.org/kdepim/e3a03f1d704838a9ced4ff41358785392774ae69
Comment 7 András Manţia 2012-07-06 09:13:36 UTC
Git commit 8846d44b217108351c35f8afd883f72ee88388ec by Andras Mantia.
Committed on 06/07/2012 at 11:12.
Pushed by amantia into branch 'KDE/4.8'.

Backport part of the filter fix: this is the actual fix, the rest were optimizations and safety checks, but it is difficult to backport.
An unwanted side-effect might be that more data is downloaded than before,
based on the type of filters used.

FIXED-IN: 4.8.5
Related: bug 287752, bug 292283, bug 286043, bug 295484, bug 302337, bug 295000, bug 295684, bug 293768, bug 275233, bug 293918, bug 284310, bug 286364, bug 283682

M  +0    -1    mailfilteragent/mailfilteragent.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/kdepim/8846d44b217108351c35f8afd883f72ee88388ec