Email Client

[Derek Broughton]

John L Fjellstad wrote:

> Wulfy <wulfmann at tiscali.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> In what other area would you need spam detection?  The only way that I'm
>> aware of that spam gets onto my system is through e-mail.  So the e-mail
>> client *is* the appropriate place to put the spam detecting task, IMHO.
> 
> Other what the other people said.  One thing about decoupling the spam
> filter and email client is that you then can change your spam filter
> without changing your client.  Say, you're not happy with the
> performance of bogofilter.  Just install spamassassin instead. 

Er, I think you got that backwards :-)  ime, spamassassin was never fast
enough to run inside KMail, bogofilter is.  But, of course, YMMV
-- 
derek