On Wednesday 19 February 2003 6:27 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.02.19 at 02:42, Tom Emerson wrote:
OR you would have to set up a server "at home" to retrieve and filter the messages and then make them available to your laptop
But that way you have to actually download them; it is ok - kind off - if you have a flat rate connection, but not for those that pay by the minute.
True -- I hadn't thought about that aspect. [DSL does that to you ;) ] In that case, you might want to investigate kmail -- it has what they call "pop filters", which only downloads the HEADER [typically only a few hundred bytes] and makes an evaluation based on that. You have to set up some filters to make a decision about the message, but at least you have a "delete from server" action available. [I don't know offhand if you can pass only the headers through spamassassin -- after all, the beauty of SA is that it will recognize the content itself, but there are probably enough "header-related" rules that if you have a high score on those, it's likely to be spam after all...]
I read that there are commercial services for spam filtering; they pick up your mail from your isp, and make it available on their server for you to pick-up. I forget the details, but it was a company in the uk.
which makse sense as I understand a large number of UK-based ISP's do have metered service for home users... [also quite prevailent in Germany, so I'd expect SuSE distro's to have tools oriented to that, where redhat might not include them...] -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net