[lists] [NMLUG] Spam filtering

[lcpotts at gmail.com (Leila Potts)]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:13:12 -0700, Ed Heron <Ed@heron-ent.com> wrote:

>   I'm in the process of looking at routing incoming e-mail into folders.  I
> am having trouble accepting that the client should do it.
> 
>   I'm planning to use thunderbird, but many of my users want web-based mail
> clients.  However, if the server isn't doing the message routing, then the
> user has to configure both the web-client and the imap-client with the same
> routing rules.  Is this acceptable to other sys admins?

I don't like the idea of the client doing the filtering, either.  This
is an annoyance for me since I frequently check my mail via the web,
and then use various IMAP clients on multiple PCs.  It's simply not
practical to configure rules on each client.  The only acceptable
solution, as I see it, is to have server-side filtering.  For spam, I
have that, but not for anything else.