[Techtalk] spamassassin

[k.clair]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 08:39:36AM +1100, Mary wrote:
- On Sun, Oct 27, 2002, k.clair wrote:
- > As far as I knew, POP clients just download messages from the mail
- > spool.  KMail can't get the mail unless it's in the mail spool.
- 
- I could be wrong, but I think KMail is downloading messages directly
- from the remote machine, using either POP or IMAP. It may then itself
- write it to the spool.
- 
- If you don't have shell access to the remote machine, or it doesn't have
- SA or procmail installed, KMail is the first chance you get to touch the
- mail.

Oh, yes, you do need a shell account to do it the way I'm thinking of
because you would need to place a .forward file in your home directory
in order to use procmail.

Some mail servers actually use procmail as the mail delivery agent, in
which case you don't need the .forward file because procmail is already
being used.

kristina