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    Effective spam filter for Linux?

    Hi, I'm gradually beginning a process of getting my mother-in-law transferred over to ubuntu. The reason for this is that she only browses the web, listens to music and uses email, and really nothing else. Her p4 1.6 with 512mb ram is getting a little long in the tooth, so an upgrade is on the cards, but I don't want to buy ms outlook again, so it'll be thunderbird. I'm not certain yet what machine we will buy, whether it's shop-bought or if I'll build, but it'll be small and quiet, and no powerhouse.

    Since she already uses firefox and songbird I thought that we might as well go the whole hog and dump windows too. The only problem is that she uses the excellent cloudmark spam filtering software for which I pay a yearly fee. Unfortuntely, despite working with thunderbird, it doesn't work in Linux

    are there any other reasonable alternatives? Or should I stick with windows for the OS?
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    Re: Effective spam filter for Linux?

    If she is going to use Evolution as her e mail client, then that integrates with spam-assassin. The offending spam is still downloaded, but just diverted transparently to a junk folder. Any that escapes can be marked as junk and spam-assassin learns. I don't know how it is set up in Ubantu - in Fedora installing Evolution installs Spam-assassin by default.

    Otherwise if she iwill be using a web based service, you need to investigate the anti-spam services the host offers as it will be filtered there.
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    Re: Effective spam filter for Linux?

    She certainly could use evolution, it's just that I'm more familiar with thunderbird, but it's no big deal. From her point of view she wants to press the email icon and not get Viagra
    spam assasin sounds perfect, thanks. Is it free? Open source? I'll do some googling now, cheers
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    Re: Effective spam filter for Linux?

    The spam assassin plugin is configured out of the box with Evolution on Ubuntu. And yes, and yes, to the other questions.
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