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List:       spamassassin-users
Subject:    Re: What version of SPAMAssassin to use?
From:       Antony Stone <Antony.Stone () spamassassin ! open ! source ! it>
Date:       2015-07-03 23:02:29
Message-ID: 201507040102.29667.Antony.Stone () spamassassin ! open ! source ! it
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On Saturday 04 July 2015 at 00:23:46 (EU time), Reindl Harald wrote:

> Am 03.07.2015 um 19:17 schrieb Antony Stone:
> > 
> > It does not run on a client machine (ie: your own computer, as an
> > end-user with an email program such as Thunderbird) - it runs on a mail
> > server, which your Thunderbird application collects email from (or,
> > perhaps, it runs on a machine which delivers *to* the machine with the
> > mailbox which your Thunderbird collects from)
> 
> says who?

Me, in haste, and in error (see my reply on this list about 3 hours before 
yours).

> these days a typical setup runs indeed on a mailserver and not on the
> client but the design of SA is by defintion to run whereever you want

Indeed, and that's why I would, with a little more thought before clicking on 
'send', have said "it does not *normally* run on a client machine..."

As I said in my earlier reply: "I guess anything's possible if you put enough 
effort into it".

> and that's why there are different scores for all rules

Er, okay, I had no idea *that* was the reason, but thanks for the  
enlightenment...


Regards,


Antony.

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The barman rings for last orders, and Pavlov jumps up exclaiming "Damn!  I 
forgot to feed the dog!"

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