The 03.02.20 at 06:59, Tom Emerson wrote:
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 ;) ]
It is not so easy to even consider flat rate or DSL when I have to move often. And not so cheap here, a newspaper said the other day that Spain has the most expensive ADSL service of Europe :-(
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
Nice... but I use fetchmail, and then, several reader clients, like pine, mozilla, balsa, kmail... Fetchmail doesn't make any filtering (except based on size), but as fetchmail simultaneously opens a connection with postfix, postfix could signal that it wants to reject an email as soon as it knows it is spam, with size been an important factor for rejection. When I used sendmail, mails that had a "from" header that would not resolve were rejected, and fetchmail stopped the download of that email on midtrack.
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...]
Mmm... then maybe some one from Germany knows of such tools. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson