On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:49:21AM +0100, Keith Watson wrote:
So I did a apropos search on 'mail' and came up with a long list of things that had been installed as part of the base install.
apropos isn't the best way to find out what is related to mail that is installed on the system. Also when you see it having a manpage for 'sendmail' it is most likely a man page for exim (the default debian smtp program)
I wouldn't worry about having a few unused (or what you think are unused) packages installed, unless you are really tight on diskspace. also dpkg -l will give a better overview of which packages are installed on your system.
As for anti-spam, I use currently use fetchmail to get my mail, which then passess mail onto exim for delivery which in turn looks in a procmail script which calls spamassassin. Anyhow I think you would have better success identifing spam by downloading it and feeding it through something like spamassassin with learning enabled. Of course this doesn't save you from having to download the spam in the first place but I would have thought filtering on headers would be quite difficult as many of the spams i get now have very sensible subjects lines and look very valid.
Adam