Mike> I have an iMac computer, three email addresses, (with AOL, GMAIL
Mike> and Apple's Me). I use the Mail program and unfortunately have to
Mike> use Microsoft Outlook in a virtual machine with Microsoft XP. I
Mike> receive the same three email accounts mail on both the Mac side
Mike> and the Windows side in "Mail" and "Outlook" respectively.
Mike> How would I use SpamBayes in my situation?
Wow. Quite the schizophrenic net presence...
I suppose what you choose depends on how completely you want SpamBayes to
cover your bases for you. It clearly works with Outlook, so that's an
option I suspect, at least as long as you're using POP3. I've experimented
with using Gmail's IMAP protocol but it didn't work too well. (Gmail has
its own spam filtering and SpamBayes and Gmail tended to "fight" as I
recall.)
Practically speaking, it might be best to just use whatever spam filters
your email providers give you then apply SpamBayes where you can easily.
Stacking them together if possible seems to work pretty well. For example,
I get email via pobox.com (s...@pobox.com) which is then relayed to GMail
(skip.montan...@gmail.com). Both pobox.com and GMail apply spam filters. I
then run the result through SpamBayes. Needless to say, SpamBayes generally
has very little work to do. For you maybe just install the Outlook plugin
and be done with it. You could use the POP3 proxy or the IMAP filter on the
Mac side of things, though which you use depends on how you retrieve email
from your providers.
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Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/
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