I have some feature suggestions, for what I feel might be the "typical" user - like me, for example.
Am I typical - well, maybe not. You decide...
I use a POP client (in my case, Eudora). SA runs on my ISPs mail server. Mail is marked, and I filter out the spam on my PC.
Its complex and difficult to communicate with SA. I do have a shell account, but not everyone does, and no one should have to use the shell to configure their PC tools. However, my ISP has moved the POP server to a different machine than the shell server, making configuring SA more complicated. (we're only talking about user configuration here, not admin).
I can log into the shell server and change white list and black list, but there is some complexity because the SA profiles aren't in my home directory, they are on another machine. Another option is to FTP the lists to and from the system with the POP server. But this is much more complicated than it should be. Using VI is not the average users strength.
What I CAN'T do is send an email to SA for training. Since I don't use shell mail at all, there is really no way that I know to send email back from my home PC to SA, with an indication that its spam, and the filters should be trained to recognize it.
So... some suggestions.
One idea (probably the most work) is to create a web interface to SA for end users. I could change both black and white lists. To handle the training, perhaps I could set Eudora to leave mail on the server for a day or two, and SA could show these to allow me to mark them - black, white, or spam. Or perhaps SA could copy (and maybe compact/excerpt) all incoming mail, store for a short time, so that when I copy an email with its limited headers from Eudora into the web page, there is enough information to identify the original mail with full information for filter training.
Another scheme would be to let me forward email to SA (a special account), with some instructions to tell SA that this piece of mail is to be white listed, black listed, or is spam.
Not being an engineer, I'm don't want to solve the problem. But it IS a PROBLEM. Spam seems to be getting smarter by the day, with more and more emails marked 3.9, or 4.5, just getting through the SA filter.
And I have no convenient way to use the more sophisticated features of SA.
If it helps, email shows up with this version information:
SpamAssassin 2.52 (1.174.2.8-2003-03-24-exp)
Thanks for any help.
Mark
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