On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 04:35:42 +0100 (CET) "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It amazes me that they refuse to accept the obvious. > Linux/Debian/Gnu provides all the solutions they need, yet they > continue to rely on Lookout! and Gmail, instead of slapping in > procmail/mailfilter and bogofilter/SA. Huh. I've no sympathy, > sorry. I'm not seeing a crap flood from where I'm sitting. Spam filtering ain't so easy. OK, I have shell access to the UNIX server from which I get my email via IMAP, so I'm filtering server-side using procmail and ifile. Every now and then I feed in "ham" and "spam" mailboxes by hand via the shell. But I'll change my job in a few weeks and won't be on that server any more, so I installed the bogofilter plugin for Claws-Mail to try some client-side filtering. Well, it doesn't filter worth shit. I keep marking stuff as "spam" and "ham", but the filter does plain nothing. Side note: I just can't get my head around GUI stuff, and my wife is increasingly annoyed by the GNOME desktop I installed for her and wants to go back to Windows. After more than a decade of working on well-honed (for my needs) Linux systems my attempts to install and configure GUI desktops and applications have shown me how far Linux is removed from everyday desktop useability. What I want to say is: I have a great MUA and a highly praised SPAM filter, but if I have to cruise mailing lists for weeks to figure out how to get it to work, "slapping in" is not the proper term to describe the installation process. --D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
