Simply telling newbies to "learn Linux" doesn't suffice. We need to provide solutions for non-techies (which, though we might not admit it, are also likely to be useful to techies).
--Jon
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Bug 105169] Filter for Attachments Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:26:36 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105169
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-04-21 12:26 PDT -------
After further research I have found that what seems to be needed is a convenient
way to integrate Mozilla, at least on Linux/Unix machines, to tools like Clamav
(for virus filtering), spamassassin (for spam filtering), and milter, and for
those of us who run local client machines that access a remote ISP's mail
server, a quick way to set up to locally use fetchmail, sendmail, procmail, and
anything else needed for a complete solution. See
http://www.constitution.org/comp/linux.htm for links to these and related tools.
At this point I haven't figured out how to connect Mozilla to fetchmail for the
first step, and I propose that Mozilla account setup at least offer that option
as part of a setup wizard or list of options, which should ultimately enable the
novice user to set up those tools with little more difficulty than now attends
setting up email retrieval directly from an ISP's POP server. The wizard should
download, install, and configure all the above utilities to receive updates of
the virus db, have spamassassin learn to recognize spam from clicking the junk
button, edit the conf files, and leave the overall operation of Mozilla mail
appearing to work the same way, except that the spam and viruses no longer
appear in the Inbox (and hopefully also no more of the warning messages that
"you sent a virus-infected message" when you did not -- standard prepended
strings like "[infected mail]" or "[returned mail]" that could be filter-moved
to the Junk or Bounce folder would help a lot for that).
-- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
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