The Tuesday 2003-12-30 at 00:30 +0100, Jon Clausen wrote:
Probably, but I won't be having 'many' users. At least not on any of the servers that I'm planning.
I have recently updated my SA from sources (as posted on the list) and found some very interesting info for you in 'Mail-SpamAssassin-2.61/sql/README': | Using SpamAssassin With An SQL Database | --------------------------------------- | | SpamAssassin can now load users' score files from an SQL database. The | concept here is to have a web application (PHP/perl/ASP/etc.) that will | allow users to be able to update their local preferences on how | SpamAssassin will filter their e-mail. The most common use for a system | like this would be for users to be able to update the white list of | addresses (whitelist_from) without the need for them to update their | $HOME/.spamassassin/user_prefs file. It is also quite common for users | listed in /etc/passwd to not have a home directory, therefore, the only | way to have their own local settings would be through an RDBMS system. I don't know if the bayes database can go there, but my feeling is "no" - I hope to be wrong. It is promissing...
you can not give a bash account to everybody. On the other hand, it might be a good idea, so that they try Linux ;-)
Nyeah... Methinks these guys are better off without me cursing at them for destroying everything they can get their hands on... ;)
X-) I must confess that my first real contact with Linux was a server on the job on which I had an account, and which I used telnetting from windows. Some short months later, I was installing it at home (SuSE 5.2, I think).
Or TPIAW; Pointy-clicky is the way to go... The boss asked me if I could fix his '98. "Sure" I said, and next time he looked I had to start explaining KDE for him... This was when 8.2 was released, and he's getting used to it. Like the fact that the stuff just works... ;)
But there's a long way from that to actually letting him do anything in a shell...
:-) Why not? If he knows MsDos, it is not so different; and you can not do much harm on a user account (unless bad intentioned, of course).
The thing is it's a small company, and I doubt this task of 'spam-screening' would be welcome with *any* of the guys...
Right.
Which is the whole idea of setting up something that doesn't involve anything more complicated than moving 'misses' to another folder.
Of course. There are some specialized companies out there (not ISPs) that filter you email before you retrieve it, for a fee. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson