Re: [Evolution] Questions about the integration of anti-spam measures in our mail client ??

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

You can already use most of these anti-spam programs, if they have a
script, or one can be written, which returns a return code based on a
message input from stdin.  This can be run via filters and the return
code checked.

This is how personally i'd like to see it continue to work, although
perhaps with some additional infrastructure to support various spam
filter mechanisms.  For example, adding a filter 'filter' which can
modify the incoming message stream as well as just piping to it, and/or
perhaps a pluggable filter system where a filter could be loaded at
run-time to provide its own user interface integrated directly in the
application.  This approach is simpler than having to implement one from
scratch, or choose to include any specific spam filtering system
directly in the evolution code, which would just mean more
work/maintenance, particularly if the one chosen became out dated with
time.

i.e. an open pluggable system versus a monolithic one.


On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 17:38, spear wrote:
> Hi there !
>
> It's a general question i'm wondering about :
> do you think it would be possible to integrate directly in our favourite
> mail client kind of Spamassassin functions to really filter mails ???
>
> The matter today is that if you don't install a mail server program,
> these anti-spam tools don't work ...
>
> Why didn't anybody yet integrate such a tool in a mail reader ? Or some
> kind of plug-in like in the Windows world for outlook express ?
>
> What do you think about it ?
>
> Mathias
>
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> spear <spear nordnet fr>
>
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