Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 04:50:35AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 04:37, Andre Kalus wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 23:33:30 +0100, Pigeon wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:28:26PM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> > >> On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 02:39:43AM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
> > >> > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:14:38AM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> > >> > > It is beyond my capability (but only slightly, I feel, and it should
> > >> > > be very easy for lots of people here) to produce a sort of
> > >> > > interactive fetchmail that reads the headers of each message on the
> > >> > > server, presents them to you and asks if you want to fetch the
> > >> > > message or delete it. This is what I would like to have.
> > >> >
> > >> > ...like pop3browser?
> > >>
> > >> That looks useful - when I can get it working :( - and decently small.
> > >
> > > ...it's dead easy; what problem are you having?
> >
> > It is very simple - you do not need any config. I just installed mutt
> > (from unstable). Then I call:
> >
> > mutt -f pop://xxxxxxx@pop.gmx.net
> >
> > where xxxxxxx is my customer number from GMX (you can use both e-Mail
> > address and customer number as login but I guess E-mail won't work because
> > it has an @ inside). pop.gmx.net is your providers pop server.
> >
> > Then you are asked for your password and see the contents of your mailbox.
> > Use arrow keys to move up and down, press D to delete a message. Q exits
> > mutt, it asks you to delete the marked ("D") messages. Just press enter
> > and you are done.
> >
> > I do have a dial-up connection too, so this is my way to get rid of SWEN...
>
> For a high-volume account, this seems *so* tedious. fetchmail,
> exim|postfix, SpamAssassin, and any one of the automated swen
> zappers is much more efficient.
I'm sure you're right, Ron, but I don't have any high-volume
accounts and I'm grateful to Andre and pigeon for pointing out
to me what I'd missed.
One problem I had with it is that it gave the message lengths as
zero, which didn't aid swen-spotting.
Thanks to all you people I've now got enough solutions to leave
me in a state of complete confusion. However, I still don't
understand (and I understand very little of these network
matters) why an interactive fetchmail thing doesn't seem to
exist. Is it because it would clog access to the mailserver if
fetchmail users held connections open while they pondered? Do
the servers close the connection after the briefest of periods
of inactivity? Or what?
>
--
David Jardine
"Running Debian GNU/Linux and
loving every minute of it." -Sacher M.
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