-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Matt Kettler wrote: > Forrest Aldrich wrote: >> Such a mechanism would still depend upon some organization on the >> server side... as far as I can tell, it's very much to the local >> sysadmin (ie: aliases to send to, forward or attach properly, >> etc). Would this even work well potentially? > > You don't need any of that in modern SA. > > Spamd allows clients to connect and perform a learn operation if > you start it with the "--allow-tell" command. All you'd need to do > is set up spamd that way and have the t-bird plugin speak the same > protocol as spamc does. > > (possibly not suited to all environments, but if you trust your > users..) > > >> Might be interesting if there were somehow a way to collect data >> on the client side (ie: thunderbird/windows or whichever >> platform) and have a mechanism to contribute that data to your >> account (or database entry, if it's MySQL backend), to your >> bayes. > > Like spamd --allow-tell ? :) > The problem with using that approach is that you can't authenticate users. In small, closed, trusted environments it can be useful, but in most situations, I don't think it will be usable. The nice thing about using an IMAP-based sollution is that the user is authenticated (provided you set it up correctly).
Kind Regards, Sander Holthaus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEJAP6Vf373DysOTURArOVAJ91dXwfG1puzqTP/qXhWk848Ca3JACggnea qA2JXSGsngZmr3rsNHMJ8WQ= =ZHDo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
