any form of spam filetering in Kmail/Kontact?

microsoft/linux · 10-21-2005, 11:17 PM

I recently switched ovter to Kmail(in Kontact) instead of Thunderbird. Is there any form of spam filtering in Kmail? That's one of the few thing I can't do that I did in Thunderbird. Thoughts? I noticed that is says "spam status: spamassassin <box>" underneath the to and from information, but how do you configure that?

microsoft/linux · 10-23-2005, 09:22 PM

nobody? Please?

fsateler · 10-23-2005, 10:16 PM

Install bogofilter. It is a bayesian spam filtering tool (which means that it uses statistics). So you install it, you get kmail working with it (via tools->anti-spam wizard), and then mark a bunch of messages as spam or ham. Over time it's efficiency should be increasing, as more messages are added to it's statistical database.

PS: Ham is mail you want, as opposed to spam.
PS2: I mentioned bogofilter because that is what I use, but there aremore tools that kmail can use (spamassassin, spambayes,etc).

microsoft/linux · 10-23-2005, 11:56 PM

thank you for your help. I didn't even realize there was an anti-spam wizard. Is there any reason I should used bogofilter vs. spamassissin? could I use both?

fsateler · 10-24-2005, 01:29 PM

AFAIK, you can use any combination of the tools. I used bogofilter because a guide I read somewhere used it, so I really don't know any difference between spamasssassin and bogofilter.