SpamAssassin with Thunderbird?

barlad · l33t Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Posts: 673

Is it possible to use SpamAssassin with Thunderbird?
I used to have SpamAssassin with Kmail. It was pretty easy to set up thanks to filters. With Thunderbird, I have quite fewer possibilities for filters though (I don't have a "pipe through" action, for example).

Any idea please? I don't want to use the Junk Mail control of Mozilla (for the sake of having spamassassin work first!)

ozonator · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 3:45 pm Post subject:

I don't know of any way to have Thunderbird do it all for you, i.e., have Thunderbird pipe mail through spamassassin.

Assuming your mail is not delivered to localhost already (in which case you could set up and use spamassasin as described in their install docs), and that you need to get mail using IMAP or POP, you could use something like getmail (my preference for POP) or fetchmail to do the mail fetching for you, and have it send the messages to procmail, which calls spamassassin. Thunderbird could then be used to read the mail thus delivered. Not ideal, I know, but it should work.

I use a setup like this with gotmail (checks Hotmail) --- gotmail hands the mail off to procmail, which runs mail through spamassassin before delivering to a local mailbox. Works nicely, and I get the pleasure of seeing all my Hotmail spam disposed of efficiently.

jbla00 · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 25

Thunderbird has built in baysian spamfiltering. Why not use that?

It worked (and still does) fine for me after a week or so of training.
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barlad · l33t Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Posts: 673

Just for the sake of having SpamAssassin work jblao. I know I might get the same results with ThunderBird inner junk filter but I am stubborn.

Anyway the filter system of Thunderbird looks really poor. I wonder how hard it would be to take a peek at kmail's sourcecode (or sylpheed but I never used it) and adapt it to Thunderbird. Sounds like something fun to do during vacations.