news wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In the past I've been using Windows XP and I used to use outlook XP with
> AVG antivirius and Cloudmakr Spamnet which worked well to protect me from
> Spam and Virii nasties.
>
> What do people recommend to get a similar setup on gentoo? I've looked at
> Mozilla but it doesn't show what messages it is downloading and won't let
> you view the inbox whilst it's downloading (I get 300-400 messages a day
> at about 98% Spam).
>
> TIA,
> Al
>
> --
> news at prbox dot con
Kmail with spamassassin is very nice.
Spamassassin has all the features you could want in a spam filter, black
lists, white lists, bayesian keywords, format checks.
Kmail has very configurable filters, both on the whole mail, and also on
just the headers, so you can delete mail on the server without downloading
(very handy, with just filtering on the subject for all the variations of
that well know performance enhancer beginning with v and ending with a,
you'll kill about half your spam), you can automatically download others,
and have kmail prompt you for what to do about others based on the headers.
--
jim