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Re: Looking for package to manipulate pop3 mailbox index



On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:34:07PM -0500, dman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 04:59:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> | 
> | On Tuesday 08 January 2002 04:38 pm, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
> | > On another ISP I've got a full mailbox (around 120MB and 15000
> | > messages I think) because a spammer has faked a legitimate e-mail
> | > address of mine and used it. This means that 
> | > 'lunsform3459@nisbet.compulink.co.uk' (which I had no idea was
> | > legitimate) has received many thousands of mail bounces.
> | >
> | > Is there a package that would allow me to examine JUST THE HEADERS of
> | > these mail messages, and allow me to delete chunks at a time? There
> | > may be a handful of mails in there that I want, but I don't want to
> | > download 120MB to find out!
> | 
> | I'm 99.9% sure you can write something in Python.
> 
> Of course you can!  :-).  (or just use telnet after reading the POP3
> RFC)
> 
> I think 'popsneaker' is the name of one such program.  IIRC there's 2
> programs (at least one of which is on sourceforge) to delete spam on a
> POP server after inspecting the headers and before downloading the
> body.

There's something called popchecker which I use. 

http://www.algonet.se/~staham/linux/programs.html

Sam
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