On Saturday 24 January 2004 6:09 am, John Pettigrew wrote:

In a previous message, "Ken Schneider" wrote:

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tar cvf /dev/st0 <somefile system> Will it only be accessible through tar?

No, there are other programs that will access the tape [taper comes to mind, as well as some commercial-class offerings like arkeia(*) -- I've used both under linux, with mixed results...]

He's keen to get at stuff he's put on the tapes in the past from Windows.

This is where you'll get stuck -- generally [so far as I know], tape formats are "proprietary" -- i.e., tapes stored with a particular backup program are only readable by that program; competitor programs won't read the tapes. You *may* have some success by running the windows-based archive program under "wine", or you may have to bite-the-bullet and go through this sequence: boot to windows [presuming a dual-boot system] restore a tape to a [temp] drive or partition [accessible to both OS's] boot to linux store a new tape from that temp partition lather, rinse, repeat... if the system isn't dual boot, but has network capability, you could do this over samba, or in the case of a program like arkeia, there is a network-capable windows client that will let you "back up" to a server (or locally, I suppose) and then, because it IS the same program, you could read the tapes under linux Tom (*) At one point, "the boxed set" of redhat software included this program [or perhaps even SuSE, like maybe 6.x?] but I think you can download a "two-client" version for free from them -- it has been a while since I've looked into this [but with a "drive problem" still in recent memory, I *really* need to rethink this... ;) ] -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net

On Dissabte 24 Gener 2004 15:10, John Pettigrew wrote:

In a previous message, Bruce Marshall wrote:

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You can set up SA with just kmail. Make one filter that looks for anything that will cause a hit (such as 'from' in the headers) and then use the 'pipe through' action to send the mail through spamassassin.

That's great - thanks!

I suggest you that you use the "spamc" client instead of the spamassassin script. It also comes in the SA package. You'll need to have the "spamd" daemon running (add it to runlevels...) but it's way faster and alleviates the fact that Kmail will be unresponsive each time a message is checked for spam. KDE bug #41514 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41514

On Saturday 24 January 2004 20:55, Richard Bos wrote:

A question for clarification. What is the effect of kmail's 'pipe through' action? Does the message return in kmail's filtering system after the 'pipe through', and is one still able to filter msgs, just like kmail is doing without SA?

From Kmail's Fine Manual: pipe through This will feed the message to a program. If that program returns output, the entire message (including the headers) will be replaced with this output. If the program does not return output or exits with a return code that's not 0, the message will not change. Specify the full path to the program. The same substitutions (%n, %{foo} as with execute command are performed on the command line. Warning Be cautious with this action, as it will easily mess up your messages if the filter program does return garbage or extra lines.