[Spambayes] Email client integration -- what's needed?

[Tim Stone Four Stones Forum]

Van, you and Robin have started to take this project to the next level.  Thanks.  I'm anxious to see what comes next.  That Spambayes is great at 
filtering is unquestionable.  But can it be useful to the masses?  The pop3proxy is the right way to go in my opinion.  I use an SMTP proxy now, it's 
so easy to set up, and it just works.  Let me volunteer my services as a tester.  I would consider myself to be a completely typical email user.  I use 
the Opera mailer on a windoze platform.  I certainly have plenty of spam volume... I also have a linux box that makes a nice little playground.

10/31/2002 5:09:27 PM, "G. Armour Van Horn" <vanhorn@whidbey.com> wrote:

>I'm really new to this as well, having only joined yesterday. (I did read Paul
>Graham's piece a couple of months ago though.) I'm not a programmer, just a
>stumbling system administrator, so my interests run in a different direction.
>
>I currently am running MailScanner with SpamAssassin on a low-volume mail
>server. I'd really like to have the Bayesian filter on the server instead of
>SpamAssassin (or in addition, I suppose). I'd want to have two mail addresses
>(one for spam, one for ham) that users could return messages to. I know the
>ultimate precision of the system comes from having individuals do this for their
>own mailboxes, but I think the community of users on this server is small enough
>that we would get 99% of the benefit.
>
>I could be wrong, but I think this would work for a lot of company servers,
>probably for a lot of small ISPs as well, protecting thousands of users both
>from Spam and the need to install tricky software on their machines.
>
>Van
>
>Robin Munn wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just joined the spambayes mailing list a couple of days ago and have
>> been trying to skim through the archives. It looks like a lot of time is
>> being spent on algorithm refining and not as much time on email client
>> integration or end-user documentation. I'm a Python programmer who's
>> currently unemployed (though the "unemployed" part of that might be
>> changing soon, I hope), so at the moment I have quite a bit of time to
>> contribute. I want to see a project that's useable not just by techies
>> but also by computer-illiterate end-users. So I'm offering my services
>> to write client integration code or documentation. I don't want to
>> duplicate work that's already being done by someone else, so can anyone
>> tell me what's already being worked on -- and what the most urgent TODO
>> items are? Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Robin Munn <rmunn@pobox.com>
>> http://www.rmunn.com/
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