Re: mail filter before download?
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 12:38:59PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> > I know there is spamassassin, procmail, etc. All those filters work only on
> > already downloaded mail. As I have a dialup connection, I would like to
> > filter spam mails out before I download them (saves me time = money). Is
> > there a way to do this on a POP or IMAP connection? Any hints welcome.
> > (I have already tried popcheck, but I have to do "manual" filtering with this
> > one, automated would be better.)
>
(dselect:)
Package: mailfilter
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Installed-Size: 492
Maintainer: Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>
Version: 0.3.3-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>=
1:2.95.4-0.010810), debconf
Description: A program that filters your incoming e-mail to help remove
spam. Mailfilter is very flexible utility for UNIX (-like) operating systems
to get rid of unwanted e-mail messages, before having to go through the
trouble of downloading them to the local computer. It offers support for one or
many POP3 accounts and is especially useful for dialup connections via
modem, ISDN, etc. Install Mailfilter if you'd like to remove spam from
your POP3 mail accounts.
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