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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: If anybody wants to make something in Ada but do not know what
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:28:06 -0500
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Wesley Groleau wrote in message ...
>Randy Brukardt wrote:
>> That said, an anti-spam filter written in Ada already exists: it's
>> called Trash Finder, and it works with the IMS mail server on
Windows. I
>> haven't publized it here precisely because no one here can use it.
:-)
>
>perhaps no one "here" but I have a friend with few computer skills
>who teaches at a college in Canada, uses IMS, and gets tons of spam.
>(I saw her in box when she stopped at our house on travel to check
>her mail.  Not a pretty sight.)
>
>Is Trash Finder difficult to set up?  (I'm not sure the
>admins at TWU would be willing to tolerate anything difficult)


No, just add it to the list of plugins and bounce the services. To be
most effective, it needs some filter patterns entered (the domains of
persistent spammers), but there is a nice GUI (written in Claw, of
course) for doing that. And it will get a lot of junk out-of-the-box.

Of course, Trash Finder has been publicized many times on the IMS-Users
mailing list. Your friend's admin ought to already be on it, because its
the only way to find out about the latest problems and there fixes.

               Randy.