Evolution's spam filter doesn't seem to work

(You probably know this already which will make me look stupid. Who cares.)

Since I started using evoluation a couple of weeks ago I had the feeling that it never quite filtered my emails for spam. Of course I had the spam filter option enabled in the settings but it didn't seem to work. I noticed this a some time ago but never found the time to look into it. So today I googled to see if anybody else had the same problem.

Guess what I found out? Evolution relies on spamassassin for spam filtering -- which I have not installed since I THOUGHT that evolution does the filtering itself. Isn't that nice? So why did nobody tell me? After all, I enabled the spam filter (or so I thought) in evolution. Why didn't it bother to tell if spamassassin is installed?

Evolution keeps annoying me from day to day. The only reason I keep it is that it syncs nicely with my palm and phone. Otherwise I would stick to Thunderbird. Oh well.