On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:38:58 -0500, you wrote: Hi Bernie
It's not that complex but McAfee was simple to setup. As this I had to tell Agent to use "localhost" and change my username to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and use my password. It was all that other gumph about changing ports and things. Hell man! Agent 3 beta is tricky enough let alone changing ports. What I really need is a little man (or woman) sitting at the end of my mail box physically deleting the crap. Hugh >On 10 Dec 2005 at 16:22, Hugh Gundersen wrote: > >> I have only got a B.Ed(Hon's) degree in technology - this sounds way to >> complex to set up;>((] > >> >I use POPFile, which works great. Since it acts as a POP Proxy, it'll >> >work with any mail client. <http://popfile.sourceforge.net> > >Well, it wasn't all that complex. There are two steps [after you load >and start it]: > >1) Configure your mail client to talk to it. Basically, what you do is >change your 'user' to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", and change the POP host to >"localhost" and change the POP port to ??? [I forget the details [it's >in the POP docs] but for Agent, I think you'll have to edit AGENT.INI to >change the POP port. > >2) Tune PoPfile. As a help for OE users, you can have POPFile categorize >your email -- all of the rest of us do that with in-our-client filtering >int folder, and so you can probably get by with just two categories: >"spam" and "not_spam". > >The only other thing you need to do is 'train' popfile [and I have to >admit: I used K9 before POPfile [both are Bayesian filters] and POPFile >trained up *amaziingly* quickly, so it really isn't onerous]. POPFile >puts a clickable-link in the headers, so if it misfiles a message [which >it will at the beginning, of course], you just click the link and a >'reclassify this message' will come up in your browser, you tell POPFile >the proper classification and you're done. > >I'm just a lowly math major and I managed, so give it a try: it really is >easier than it might sound..:o) > > /Bernie\ > >-- >Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA > --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
