Re: Getting started with spam filtering

[Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

>> (Are these spam processors at all available for us Windows users,
>> btw? Cygwin would work.) Do I have to use an external program?
>
> BBDB, whitelists, and blacklists are internal.  Blackhole checks need
> dig.el or dns.el to work.
>
> Ifile and Bogofilter should work if executable-find can find the
> program, and call-process-region works with that program.  I don't
> have a Win32 machine to test on, so let me know if things break.

It took me a whole weekend to get ifile up and running under cygwin (The
most import things are to link against libiberty.a and install cygipc,
but there was some more stuff I had to do, can't remember everything).

Spamassassin works OK under cygwin, bogofilter haven't I tried.

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