[NTLUG:Discuss] Installing Spamassassin on Suse

[Terry Henderson]

 SpamAssassin runs on a _server_, and filters spam before it reaches
your mailbox. Unless your running a mail server, you probably don't
need SpamAssassin. You might suggest SpamAssisn to your ISP but I
don't think it'll be of any use to a client PC.

If you're just running a desktop system and a mail client to download
and read email, what you want to use is mail filtering.

If you already have a lot of spam, what I recommend is what I call
'reverse filtering'.  In other words, if you have way more sources of
spam than  you have mail contacts that you correspond with, then I
suggest filtering your contacts, which is to say, set up filters for
the mail you want to receive and ditch all the rest.

The mail client I preferr is Thunderbird.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
It's very user friendly and mail filters work quite well and easy to
set up and maintain.

The best way I can describe 'reverse filtering', (which I think is the
simpliest way to deal with this problem), is like this:
1) Make a new folder, name it 'MyInbox'
2) Make filters for each contact you want to receive from and have
those messages sent to 'MyInbox'.
3) Only go to the original 'Inbox' to see if there's anything there
you really needed to see, otherwize, just delete it all periodically.