Re: Ifile

Jason Rennie <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:43:50 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ifile.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] said:
> This is a misconception which is widespread. For a user it doesn't
> matter if the system wasn't compromised when all his data and work is
> destroyed or tampered with. Just look at the mail viruses in the M$
> windows world. You don't need root premissions to be affected by this.

Ah.  Very true.  It could easily be attacked by a malicious e-mail.

[email protected] said:
> I started using it to filter my mail into folders and it is missing
> the spot a bit from time to time, but that is expected. At least it is
> far better than spamassassin which put me into swap every morning. 

Yeah, ifile is low-overhead and speedy.  You won't get as good spam
filtering as spam assassin.  Spam assassin takes advantage of a much
better set of features than ifile.  But, I guess that's the perl vs. C 
tradeoff... :)

Jason