Re: Bogofilter and Kontact

From: Malke (notreally_at_invalid.invalid)
Date: 11/03/05 

Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:26:15 -0800

BearItAll wrote:

> The machine I am setting up is a salesman's laptop so I want to carry
> it's own anti-spam rather than rely on the mailserver to do it.
>
> I haven't used bogofilter before, but on Suse 10.0 you have to
> downgrade some components to use spamassassin. That wouldn't be so bad
> because they was nothing wrong with the previous versions. But decided
> to try bogofilter first.
>
> From Kontact you can mark your spam as spam, then I presume you run
> the filters as part of the training of bogofilter.
>
> But so far it hasn't caught a single spam. even if I put loads of
> known spam into the box on the mail server, read it in, mark it as
> spam, run the filters. Then load the same spam again. It still doesn't
> catch any.
>
> But it does update the wordlist.db
>
> I suspect I'll have to change to my trusted
> postfix/fetchmail/spamassassin combo. But this bogo/Kontact should
> work, so I wondered if anyone had found the right place to tickle it
> until it springs into action.

I can't help you with Kontact (I'm sure someone else will come along),
but I can tell you that I was unhappy with the Bogofilter/Kmail combo
in SuSE 9.3. I switched over to a combination of SpamAssassin on my
email server (not my own machine - I use my web host's server) and the
Junk Mail filter in Thunderbird. I find that T-bird works very well and
perhaps you might want to try that on your salesman's machine.

You don't have to use Kontact if you just want to use components. For
instance, I like KOrganizer for my calendar.

Malke 

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