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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Simon Waters wrote: > > The main downside so far is that it is very resource hungry, and > I suspect some lurking bugs. > > Filtering such as Spam Assassin is better done before the mail > client IMHO, as it will make it easier to switch clients. How, exactly? I'm using dial-up (and paying per-minute too so I'm offline a lot and online for as brief a time as possible). SpamAssassin is actually only needed for certain accounts as my main accounts already implement SpamAssassin at the server. That was how I found out about SpamAssassin originally. To filter before the mail client, I presume you mean fetchmail? How does that work alongside kppp - can fetchmail be run on command transparently behind KPPP and Mozilla? The SpamAssassin site goes into details of .procmailrc and it all looks very cryptic - plus it appears to only help local mail (from the LAN) - so I would have to implement fetchmail to transfer POP email on a remote server to the local mail agents? > Indeed rumour has it Theo uses procmail to filter his mailing > lists out, my mailing lists are still filtered in the client, > but I'll get there eventually. Sounds like a lot of (unnecessary) work compared to KMail. > I assume Spam Assassin can be trivially invoked from '.filter', > if you don't want to build it into Postfix. It can be run using a daemon using spamc < message. (SpamAssassin is a Perl script after all.) > Here for TMDA I have; > > $ cat .forward > "| /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/tmda-0.65/bin/tmda-filter" > > Which consumes the vast majority of my spam, currently only > letting in spam mimicing mail bounces, alledgely coming from > people I know, or from spammers who whitelist themselves (1 so far). Is it worth the effort of an intermediary between Mozilla and the POP server when KMail does it all already? - -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk http://www.dclug.org.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+KF8YiAEJSii8s+MRAp0SAJ0Ycx6UPm2qXxX8qVJNquckevHyoACgmw77 S+Zlb4mxiCvHM01aMGDlRd8= =Y3Ti -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.