Hi, On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 22:26:58 -0400 Don Saklad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...to put into action or service : avail oneself of : employ > > Click on the verb > use[2, verb] > at > http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=use&x=15&y=15 That really doesn't help, now does it? There are many different ways to use SpamAssassin: * at the server level - pre-acceptance (perhaps as a greylisting policy test or a reject-after-SMTP-DATA-phase filter) - pre-delivery, as a delivery policy agent (/dev/null or put in user's spool) - as an egress filter to detect outgoing spam * at the client level - as part of a POP3 or IMAP proxy - as a part of a procmail, maildrop, or other MDA or MUA filter * as an analysis tool - for getting aggregate stats on mail traffic - for custom-tuning scores - for analyzing outgoing messages to increase deliverability * as part of a commercial or proprietary "filtering solution" - SAProxy Pro, Can It, Barracuda, <insert product name here>, ... * or something else - detect spam to forums, message boards, wikis, and blogs Depending on your definition of user, any of these is a possible use. It's not possible to provide help to neophyte users unless we know something about the user, where in the message stream SA is applied, and the context in which SA is called (directly as a script, spamc/spamd, through a proxy, through a MTA plugin, through a client/MUA plugin, through some commercial package, etc.) If the answer is 'a WinXP user who retrieves mail via POP3 with Outlook and who does not use the command line and does not program, not even a little bit, and who wants a button to press to make spam go away' then the answer is probably not to use SpamAssassin directly but to use some commercial product instead. hth, -- Bob
