amadis wrote:
I usually think of myself as pretty capable with a computer but Spamassassin and it's website have made me think twice. I took me 20 minutes just to figure out where this forum was. I feel like Apache is trying to weed out dunderheads like me from using their product. I swear I cannot understand 80% of what is written on the how to install page. I've spent three hours now trying to install this program and cannot imagine that this was written for anyone but a computer programmer. I've searched the internet for help elsewhere and every conversation sounds like a foreign language. How is this user-friendly? I'd really like to support OpenSource but I swear if someone doesn't show me a SIMPLE way to work this, I'm dumping SA and Thunderbird and going back to Outlook.
Are you running a mail server? SpamAssassin is a tool intended to be used by people who build mailservers that are used at ISPs and companies. It's not intended to be used by end-users for a single
mailbox - although if you had the right kind of account at an ISP you could do that - most people would not. If you want to use SpamAssassin I would suggest you find an ISP in your area that provides mailboxes that are scanned by SpamAssassin. And by the way, Thunderbird has nothing to do with SpamAssassin, and people can access SpamAssassin-protected mailboxes just fine with Outlook. Ted
