Re: MS mail bombs
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 21:18, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > On Saturday 20 September 2003 2:27 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > The other way is a neat little trick I use on my ISP account- limit the
> > > > size of messages to download, I limit them to 2000 bytes. You can try
> > > > different sizes to see what works. Then when I check mail a popup window
> > > > appears showing a list of messages, with subject lines and the senders of
> > > > any messages bigger than 2000 bytes. Then I can either leave them on the
> > > > server, delete them, or download them. I don't know if all mail clients
> > > > do this, it's worth checking out.
> > >
> > > Well that's sweet.
> > >
> > > I see that you use KMail. Is it KMail that gives you this capability?
> >
> > Yes, and I'm pretty sure Evolution, Outlook, eudora, and other major mail
> > clients can do it too. I love Kmail, it's extremely configurable and
> > reliable.
>
> If Evo can do it, the proper "knob" is well and truly hidden.
>
Evolution has a 'filter' option that could do a basic "if mail size > 2000
bytes then move to 'suspect spam' folder".
There is also a way to pipe a mail message to an external program and
check its exit code. So, you could do some crazy stuff if you REALLY wanted to.
I'm not that interested. So, I just started to fiddle with procmail and it
is doing well.
-Kev
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