Thanks for the below, René,
I think you mentioned SpamAware earlier but I either forgot or I
couldn't find it; I'll certainly look into what you've suggested.
By the way, you've inspired me to add something I thought about earlier
but didn't write: it seems a viable idea for an individual or group to
hire web hosting which has SA on it, just to forward/redirect our emails
through the hosted domain and thereby get the SA headers to filter on in
a POP desktop client. Without fully thinking it through, I imagine that
idea may work without mangling headers. The assumption here of course
is, to make it worthwhile, we trust the host has correctly installed and
fully configured SA for it to work optimumly (if that word exists).
Lee
René Berber wrote:
Lee wrote:
[snip]
I appreciate however those instructions may be aimed at a mindset and
application at server level rather than desktop, but I assume there are
others like me who would love SA's excellent spam filtering in a Windows
desktop email client.
[snip]
The best choice for this (desktop) is SpamAware :
http://www.jam-software.com/spamaware/
As you pointed out, most solutions are implemented as proxies that need
spamd or spamassassin running somewhere.
SpamAware is a real MS Outlook (and O-Express) plugin that also includes
ClamAV. Just as the proxy solutions I think it can only be used with
POP servers, no IMAP, that's a real heavy downside; but I haven't used
it or looked in a long time.
Since I had SA running under Cygwin I used to update rules, change the
ones I wanted, even tried to add plugins (FuzzyOCR and SpamBot)... those
didn't work in SpamAware (but do work on Cygwin SA, which by the way, is
not a package distributed with Cygwin but easy to install with CPAN).
If you use Thunderbird which has integrated SA score awareness there is
nothing currently like SpamAware, one experimental plugin Spamness,
http://ryanlee.org/software/mozilla/thunderbird/spamness/, also needs SA
scoring on the mail server.
Perhaps there are options using tools like fetchmail and similar, I
haven't searched for those but it could be relatively easy to set them
up alongside SA.
