[spambayes-dev] Web Interface to SpamBayes (procmail)

[Tony Meyer]

> Probably my ignorance then!  I haven't closely looked at sb_server to
> see how it works on a linux box with sendmail and procmail.  I also
> don't want my users to have to load any software on their 
> machines, but I want to give each user the ability to manage their
> own spam filter.

Making the existing tools multi-user would mean a bit of work, but I would
think less than doing the whole lot from scratch.  You could probably put
something at the front that asked for a username/password and then loaded
the appropriate configuration file.

Note that even if sb_server/sb_upload aren't any use, all the interface code
should still be usable, if you want it.  The UserInterface.py module has
most of it - see ProxyUI.py or ImapUI.py for example usage.

> I may be completely off base with my work, but it seems that 
> if it were that simple, there would not be any need for the
> Outlook plugin.  Is this not so?

You'll never get the same sort of experience with a web-based interface as
you will with an integrated plug-in.  How do you do drag-and-drop training,
for example?  (Well, the sb_pop3dnd script gives that, but still...).  What
about buttons so that you can select a message, click a button, and have it
trained?  Classify any selected message?  Classify some incoming messages,
but not others?

In addition, in my experience, people would rather stay within the
application - going out to a web browser doesn't make sense to them.

=Tony Meyer