Trying to find where an mbox lives in Evolution

[Pasha R]

On 8/14/06, PFJ <paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm still having fun and games trying to get sa-learn to do as it's
> told. The problem is not sa-learn, but where the junk mbox lives.
>
> According to the xml file, it should be in email:local at local//.%
> 23evolution/mail/junk. %23 I'll take as being "#" (%20 = space = 32
> ASCII). Doesn't exist.
>
> I've looked in /var/mail, inside of the .evolution directories and
> anywhere else it could reasonably be. I've never set up a separate
> directory for junk (always just used the default), so there is no .junk
> directory in my homedir. There is junk in the folder as I can select the
> junk folder and read the emails in there.
>
> Where does the junk live in evolution 2.7.91-1? I have spam which I need
> sa-learn to learn!
>
> TTFN
>
> Paul

I'm not sure, but I think, "Junk" is a virtual folder, and no mbox
file exists for it. When I needed to do something similar, I just made
a filter, which copied all junk messages to some real folder I created
and ran a sa-learn on it.