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Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage



On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:54:05AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (25/10/03 01:14), David Jardine wrote:

> > ...
> > ...
> > I've read the fetchmail documentation and concluded that fetchmail 
> > will never delete anything without consulting exim or whatever.  
> > I've tried to follow all the contributions to this list on the 
> > subject.  Have I missed something?
> Only if you have a pop3 account, in which case you can preconnect mailfilter
> before fetchmail to remove most of this stuff from the server before
> collecting your mail. 

Yes, I'm sorry.  I'd got it into my head for some reason that 
mailfilter worked post-download so I didn't take much notice of 
correspondence on the subject.

> see various .mailfilterrc files post in the last few weeks.  Some
> filter on size.  I use a combination of Subject, From and To headers to
> filter most of it out.  Let me know if you want my rc file.

Thanks but I've managed that all right.



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