All: _IS_ there a Thunderbird plugin for SA? That would seem to be quite useful.
1) install perl for your platform (amadis: the perl language interpreter is required for Spam Assassin) 2) install SA 3) install the (hypothetical) Thunderbird plugin Then you can use SA to augment Thunderbird's build-in Junk detector. Amadis: As far as I've generally used SA, it has been on mail servers, not mail clients. There is an exception to that (for unix users, using something called procmail, but that's off topic from your request. Thunderbird does have built-in junk/spam detection, that you turn on in the Thunderbird preferences. Otherwise, you need to ask your email provider to see about installing Spam Assassin on their server or email-gateway. (if they're using Exchange, to match your desire for Outlook, then they'll need a gateway, as far as I know). JRudd On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 16:26, amadis <adrieneama...@comcast.net> 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. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Pulling-my-hair-out-tp25967420p25967420.html > Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
