one word: SSH.
Ssh? I'm too loud? I bet this means something. I haven't worked with non-mainframe servers ever. It took me a while to figure out how to use Ultra-Edit to edit my user_prefs file.
SSH is Secure SHell, a remote login protocol.. it's similar to telnet, and gets you the same basic shell prompt, but encrypted. It's very popular for UNIX systems, and clients for windows exist.
From reading some other messages on the list, I'm beginning to realize the problem in my response. You're an end-user that has access to SA on your ISP's mailserver.. but it is their mailserver, not yours. You don't have root-level permissions to modify the behaviors of the server itself.
Configuring methods of remote access and control are fundamentally a system administration issue. All of the methods I was suggesting would be things your ISP could do to allow such things, but it's fundamentally a change to the server itself, thus they have to do it.
Unfortunately, without reconfiguring the server, it's impossible to have any kind of automatic-mail-forwarding 'this is spam' system that you can just access from outlook. This is fundamentally not the kind of feature that SA can, or should, directly provide, since it's a remote-control type of feature.
From the sound of things, you're already using some kind of FTP setup to access your user_prefs.. You can probably either SSH or telnet into the server with the same login name and password and get a unix shell prompt so you can run spamassassin commands directly. This is of course up to your ISP, but if they have a shell account you can FTP into, odds are good they made it telnet or ssh accessible too.
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