Windows port: spell checking and bogofilter.

[John Murphy-11]

As someone who has had to move back to MS Windows (because there's no
Linux drivers or software for some pretty cool hardware I bought) I
much appreciate the porting efforts to that platform. I tried a recent
beta version, but found I really need spell checking and the bogofilter
plugin. So I reluctantly removed it.

I tried Forte Agent, The Bat, and Eudora (Penelope). None of which
compare to claws-mail (IMHO). So now I run CM-3.5.0 on Mandriva-2008.1
in Sun's VirtualBox-2.0.2 on Windows XP SP3 and as a bonus I get to use
some of the other Linux tools I came to love.

Looking forward to a port which can do everything it does in an Linux
environment, of course, but in the mean time I'm quite happy to use it
in the way described above. Thanks.

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John.

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[Holger Berndt]

On Mo, 29.09.2008 23:31, John Murphy wrote:

>Looking forward to a port which can do everything it does in an Linux
>environment

It's harder to port stuff with dependancies. I am, for example, unaware
of a Bogofilter Windows port.

Holger

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[Colin Leroy]

Le Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:23:40 +0200 30 Sep 2008 at 08h09, Holger Berndt
a écrit:

Bonjour,

> >Looking forward to a port which can do everything it does in an Linux
> >environment  
>
> It's harder to port stuff with dependancies. I am, for example,
> unaware of a Bogofilter Windows port.

Yes; I tried to cross-build it, but it failed. Maybe I'll look into a
win32-specific antispam plugin, if it's not too much hassle.

For spell checker, I don't know if I'll do it: it will require
to crossbuild enchant, aspell, and to ship enchant, aspell, and aspell
dictionaries (which are huge).

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Colin

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[Holger Berndt]

Am Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:28:47 +0200
schrieb Colin Leroy <colin@...>:

> Yes; I tried to cross-build it, but it failed. Maybe I'll look into a
> win32-specific antispam plugin, if it's not too much hassle.

Though being sub-optimal, Windows folks can always use anti-spam tools
that don't require integration with the MUA. Ages ago, I was using
SpamPal on Windows. This tool acts like a proxy between MUA and mail
server to filter spam. It worked well back then. However, I don't know
how healthy the project still is. I also remember that setting up SSL
required extra work.

Holger

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[Colin Leroy]

Le Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:46:06 +0200 30 Sep 2008 at 09h09, Holger Berndt
a écrit:

Bonjour,

> > Yes; I tried to cross-build it, but it failed. Maybe I'll look into
> > a win32-specific antispam plugin, if it's not too much hassle.  
>
> Though being sub-optimal, Windows folks can always use anti-spam tools
> that don't require integration with the MUA. Ages ago, I was using
> SpamPal on Windows. This tool acts like a proxy between MUA and mail
> server to filter spam. It worked well back then. However, I don't know
> how healthy the project still is. I also remember that setting up SSL
> required extra work.

Yes, BSFilter does proxying too, for example.

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Colin

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[Abhay S. Kushwaha]

Colin:

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:28:47 +0200, you wrote:

> For spell checker, I don't know if I'll do it: it will require
> to crossbuild enchant, aspell, and to ship enchant, aspell, and
> aspell dictionaries (which are huge).

aspell comes as a Win32 binary and is usually installed by users on
their own. I think Pidgin also uses aspell for spell-checking but
they don't include aspell as a package within the Pidgin installer.
In many cases, an installation of aspell might exist with the right
dictionaries or a user can be pointed to get them directly.

So the real problem is actually brought down to crossbuilding
enchant which uses aspell if available. I don't say making it work
with aspell (properly) isn't a problem, but in comparison, it's a
smaller problem. :)

[a]


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[Jerry-99]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:28:47 +0200
Colin Leroy <colin@...> wrote:

> For spell checker, I don't know if I'll do it: it will require
> to crossbuild enchant, aspell, and to ship enchant, aspell, and aspell
> dictionaries (which are huge).

I don't know how to go about this; however, there are programs on
Windows that check to see if MS-Word is installed, and if it is, they
use the MS-Word spellchecker/dictionary. I don't know if that would be
applicable here or not. I have personally used 'Mail-Washer'
<http://www.mailwasher.net/> to filter mail on my Win32
machines. It works quite well and there is a free version available.
Maybe providing a link or something to it with the installation package
might be useful.

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Jerry
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