On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 05:39:57PM -0400, Richard Tango-Lowy wrote: > "Think like a user, Luke." > > My sister would like to replace windows with linux on her machine. She > gets a lot of spam, and is certainly not competent to set up a spam filter > on her own. It would be nice if Mandrake was able to take care of it for > her (and all the other non-hacker users in the world).
Tell the email clients and the mail servers to put hooks in for using tools like spamassassin. As it stands now it's not designed to be used by the average end user. All that could/would change if email clients (in particular) and mail servers included hooks for spamassassin and it's brethren. But they don't. Which leaves us with using procmail. And parsing and adding procmail rules for someone is pretty much impossible to do in a way that is reliable. So don't ask Mandrake to fix this. Ask your favorite mail client/server author to add support for it. Simply making their client/server capable of internally sending messages to spamd would be more than sufficient to make this possible. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org If your love has no hope of being welcomed do not voice it; for if it be silent it can endure, a guarded flame, within you. - The Wisdom of the Sands
