On Thursday 20 February 2003 20:03 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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.
Ok... you use fetchmail. That's a start. And then what? Fetchmail hands off to sendmail... then what? I use: Fetchmail ---> sendmail ---> procmail ---> /var/mail/<several inboxes> --> pop3 from Kmail into several folders. The point I left out above is that Spamassassin is called by a procmail recipe and filters every incoming mail prior to Kmail ever seeing it. I think you're making this more complex than it has to be. Your turn: how do you receive mail now?
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.
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