Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] calendar and e-mail programs for Linux

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

>So it is mostly GPL and LGPL.  That's very good.
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I think the only part that isn't opensource is connector.. which lets 
Evolution users connect to Exchange servers for extra features.

>Know any names or sites?
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Not off hand but I see them all the time. Everything from stand alone 
programs to web based enterprise suites.

>I don't know Thunderbird.
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Thunderbird is the Mozilla Mail program as split from the browser (and 
other parts of classic Mozilla) and streamlined. It's the mail client 
equiv to Firefox (the browser component).

>I guess that bayesian filtering requires that
>the user's MUA can report back to the filter program what the user thought
>of the program's choices.  So there's no way to do bayesian filtering
>without feedback from the user via the MUA.  It seems like there could be
>a trick to getting around that, but I don't know what it would be.  Can
>you pipe a bunch of spam through the filter, then pipe a bunch of nonspam
>through the filter?  If so, that could be a way to give it feedback
>without having to use a particular MUA.
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They have server level filters, which is what Evolutiuon developers seem 
to say you should use. I still think this is a function better left in 
users control though and with the simplicity of intergration with the 
email client.
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