On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 19:49, Trevor Smith wrote: > On September 14, 2004 4:21 pm, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > Can kmail use both bogofilter and spamassassin, like it can use f-prot and > > clamav [both antivirus programs] ? > > I don't run spamassassin (I'm a single user laptop) but my web/mail hosting > company does. Spamassassin marks everything up and sends it to me, then > bogofilter judges everything (including the stuff that spamassassin misses) > and marks it spam or not according to its statistical analysis. So yes, you > can run the two together. You can also use spamassassin as part of a filter on your email package. I have been using it list this with evolution for some time now and it does a great job. You just use your email client as always connecting to your ISPs email server using pop3 and have a filter that passes each message through spamassassin. Its return value tells you if it is spam or not. If it is spam I have it move the message to a holding folder just in case it is a false positive. (Have not had a false positive in over a year) I have a short script that teaches the bayes database the spam messages. Any spam that is missed, I get about 5 or so a week, I put in a special folder which is also processed by the script. I run the script once a week or so. Now if you are running an email server then I recommend a combination of spamassassin and greylisting. Greylisting will block 99% of the spam from even getting onto your server. Highly effective. Those that do get through are caught by spamassassin. I believe there are version of greylisting packages out there for most of the MTAs available. I have used milter-greylist with sendmail at work for some time now and it is fantastic. So you have a choice, you can set up an MTA or simply use spamassassin as a filter on your email client. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of trash.
