[Kde-pim] Pipe througth external programmen freezes KMail

[David Jarvie]

On Tuesday 08 May 2007 19:08:49 Florian Lindner wrote:
> Hello,
> I use the standard ruleset KMail has produced for spamassassin. The only
> thing I have changed is to remove the -L from the command thus enabling
> online tests. I know that this makes SA a lot slower but that's not a
> problem.
>
> But KMail freezes everytime entirely when a message is piped through SA
> which is very annoying, you can't use it while it's fetching mail. Why is
> this not done in an external thread or process?
>
> Can I change it? (is it working to add a & at the command to do the
> filtering in the background?)

One alternative which separates the spamassassin process from KMail is to use 
fetchmail and procmail to fetch your mail, and put a call to spamassassin in 
procmailrc. This needs a bit more configuring than you may want to do, but it 
works.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm
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