Re: KMail filter on attachments? (How to filter windows viruses.)
I don't use POP. Plus, the KMail POP3 filters require confirmation. Very
annoying if you leave your machine to autocheck.
On Saturday, January 10, 2004 6:17 pm, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote:
> On Saturday 10 January 2004 21:00, Antiphon wrote:
> > I'm not running the latest CVS so can someone tell me if KMail has the
> > ability to filter attachments? As of 1.5.4, KMail doesn't have this
> > functionality It really ought to. I'm sick of Windows viruses clogging up
> > my inbox.
>
> This particular nuisance is in fact easy to get rid of. At least if you use
> a pop server. You have to turn on pop filtering for your account, and set
> it to trigger at a reasonably low size mail. 50kb is good.
> Now add two pop filters.
> The first filter checks if your email address is in the To: header. Set it
> to download all mail that triggers this filter.
> Add a second filter that always triggers and have it simply nuke everything
> else.
>
> How this works:
>
> Windows virus spam never has your email address in the actual to: header
> field, but real people sending you attachments almost always have. So you
> simply download all "real mail" and nuke everything else.
> Now if people cc/bcc you, this will unfortunately kill all those. I find
> this to be acceptable.
>
> The cool thing is that you don't even waste bandwith downloading the entire
> mail, you only get the headers, and the filter then decides whether to get
> the mail or kill it on the server.
>
> Anders
>
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