POP-3 email filter?
rnic...@interaccess.com
I am looking for a POP-3 client that can download an initial segment of
large e-mail messages and perform procmail-like matching to decide
whether the message should be downloaded in its entirety or simply
deleted on the server and ignored. My ISP does not provide any
server-side filtering, and I need an efficient way to discard the large
messages sent in virus floods or from some spam sources.
Suggestions? (Followups set to comp.os.linux.misc.)
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Bob Nichols rnic...@interaccess.com
Ransom
Robert Heller
In a message on Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:18:31 -0400, wrote :
R> rnic...@interaccess.com wrote:
R>
R> >
R> > I am looking for a POP-3 client that can download an initial
R> > segment of large e-mail messages and perform procmail-like
R> > matching to decide whether the message should be downloaded in
R> > its entirety or simply
R> > deleted on the server and ignored. My ISP does not provide any
R> > server-side filtering, and I need an efficient way to discard
R> > the large messages sent in virus floods or from some spam
R> > sources.
R> >
R> > Suggestions? (Followups set to comp.os.linux.misc.)
R> >
R>
R> fetchmail an mailfilter: http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/
popsneaker is another option.
R>
R> HTH
R> Ransom
R>
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Andy Baxter
kmail does pop filtering on any mail header + size and age.
andy
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remove ' n - u - l - l ' to email me.
Please don't send me html mail or un-notified attachments. These will be
automatically filed under 'probable spam' unless I'm expecting an email
which hasn't come.
If you do need to send an attachment or html mail, put [attachment] or
[html] in the subject line.
Thanks, andy.
Steve Kirkendall
I wrote a little biff-like utility to do that. I wanted a biff that
would only alert me if *meaningful* messages arrive. Later, I added
a button to automatically delete anything marked as non-meaningful.
For example, this morning I had 7 real messages and 43 spams and
viruses. I clicked the [All spam must die!] button, and the spam
and viruses went away. I only downloaded the real messages.
The program is named "xpopcheck". I leave xpopcheck running
continuously (iconified), and have it configured to check for new
mail every few minutes. There's also a non-graphical "popcheck"
program for use in shell scripts.
For more info, or to download the source, go to...