On Wednesday 16 August 2006 23:02, jdow wrote: > From: "Nigel Henry" <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > On Wednesday 16 August 2006 19:12, Mike McCarty wrote: > >> Nigel Henry wrote: > >> > On Monday 14 August 2006 20:37, Frank Cox wrote: > >> >>On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:47:28 -0400 > >> >> > >> >>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >>>if he is killed, then that particular source of spam is removed > >> >>>from the gene pool. > >> >> > >> >>Perhaps the gene pool needs a lifeguard.... > >> > > >> > And preferably one that can't swim. "Nudge Nudge" "Wink Wink" "Nod > >> > Nod" "Say no more" (credited to Monty Python) > >> > >> But his wife could be a "goer" :-) > >> > >> Mike > > > > I'm confused now. Who's wife is this? The lifeguard who can't swim. The > > spammer who drowns, or perhaps even Gene's wife. Oops. I shouldn't have > > said that one, as she might come over here and smack me round the back of > > the head for inferring such terrible things. > > > > Joking aside, the spamming is getting out of hand. Recently I saw that > > 64% of e-mail traffic was spam. I've recently installed Bogofilter on my > > machine, > > FWIW Bogofilter uses SpamAssassin internally. Experience indicates that > the FREE SpamAssassin (already part of FC distros) and the Spam Assassin > Rules Emporium rule sets, carefully user selected as needed, are more > effective than Bogofilter, which I understand is (quite) not free. I did not realise it was using SpamAssassin. What do you mean by "(quite) not free"? I hope they're not using tracking cookies like DAP from Speedbit.com (Windows OS), which incidentally I'm no longer using, nor the Windows OS. > > http://www.rulesemporium.com/ > > This may help other users. I suspect you're already welded in to > bogofilter. > > {o.o} I wanted a spamfilter that would work directly with Kmail, and filter downloaded mail. Someone suggested Bogofilter, so I went with it, and after a few problems setting up the filters in Kmail, it appears to be working ok. On the other machine I have installed SpamAssassin, but havn't got around to setting up the filters in Kmail for it yet. I leave the mail on the ISPs POP3 server when I download the mail on that machine. I don't look forward to building up another database again, but it will be interesting to see how SpamAssassin compares to Bogofilter. Question. Is there a way to FTP Kmails Spam list, and NonSpam list to the other machines Kmail, so that I don't have to build up a new database from scratch for SpamAssassin? Nigel.
