Lee wrote:
> Hello Kevin,
>
> I agree with you regarding my ambitions V ability. I have decided to
> give up. I do however still want to find something for free and using
> online lookups, but I appreciate that's not for here. I'm aware I am
> resisting one or two commercial desktop solutions apparently offering
> what I'm looking for.
I think your objective wasn't clear from the start, now it is and that's
a plus.
Another point is you came asking in this forum which is 99% sys admins
with mail servers, 1% desktop users. SA is useful for both as you can
deduce from seeing pages like :
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SingleUserUnixInstall
What you are looking for is not unusual. Like I mentioned, there's
SpamAware for Outlook and nothing for Thunderbird... but there's
something close for TB and ClamAV (and with 3rd party signatures you can
use ClamAV as anti-spam, it already does anti-phishing and safe browsing
besides anti-virus).
Take a look at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/6663,
the needed ClamAV is distributed with Cygwin.
The alternative, as said before, is fetchmail (or similar: fdm, animail,
mailfiter, etc.) Its more complicated because you also need to install
and configure procmail, and at least something like UW IMAP; not
difficult but you have to learn to configure all of those.
The idea with fetchmail, to make things clear, is to use it to get all
your mail from external servers (pop3, imap, pop3s, imaps), pipe the
messages through procmail which pipes it through SA and classifies it if
necessary, and then deliver the messages with dmail. Your mail client,
Thunderbird, connects only to your local IMAP server (UW IMAP since
that's the only one distributed with Cygwin) and you can use TB's
built-in functionality to use SA's headers.
Now that I was writing this I looked TB's options and besides SA there
is support for SpamPal... looks interesting, and it comes from Steve
Basford which is very well known for us ClamAV users. Its a proxy, much
better than others I've seen. Here's a link:
http://spampal.sanesecurity.com/
--
René Berber
