On Saturday 21 August 2004 11:08, rkimber@ntlworld.com wrote:
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 04:03:32 +0200
Anders Johansson
wrote: Well, all client side antispam solutions require you to download the mail before it can be tested, there just aren't any good ways of testing for spam without seeing the mail body. And if you're running the server yourself, you don't really need a kmail wizard, since then you'd be running spamassassin directly on the server
Surely with mailfilter and some carefully crafted filter rules, it is possible to delete a proportion of it on the mail server without downloading the body?
A proportion, sure. The most inept cases of spam, i.e. subject lines like "PLEASE HELP", or "GET BIGGER NOW" would get caught, but the cleverer spams would be more difficult.