Email Client

[Derek Broughton]

Billie Walsh wrote:

> On 11/15/2007 Derek Broughton wrote:
>> KMail's been doing that for me for 7 years...  Sure you need to have
>> spamassassin or bogofilter (my choice) installed, but that's normal for
>> *nix systems - you shouldn't have spam detection implemented _in_ your
>> email client, when it's a separate task.
> 
> Now you've piqued my curiosity.
> 
>> you shouldn't have spam detection implemented _in_ your
>> email client, when it's a separate task.
> Why?
> 
> To me it seems that would be the obvious place.

Because you write an app to do one thing, and you call other apps to do the
other things.  Filtering out spam is a function that doesn't need to be in
the mail client.  It's fine to say "well I need spam filtering in my email,
so put it in the client", but what if you're running your own mail server? 
Then it makes more sense to put the spam filtering between the mail server
and the client, or even better, at the moment of receipt at the server.

The beauty of both spamassassin and bogofilter is that they can sit in any
of those places.
-- 
derek