Bug#101152: ITP: mailfilter -- applies user rules to delete spam from a POP3 mailbox
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
>From the mailfilter README:
"Mailfilter is a flexible utility for UNIX (-like) operating systems to get rid
of unwanted spam mails, before having to go through the trouble of downloading
them into the local computer. It offers support for one or many POP3 accounts
and is especially useful for dialup connections via modem, ISDN, etc.
Mailfilter connects to any POP3 mail box and compares part of its content to a
set of user defined filter rules. That way the spam gets deleted directly on
the mail server.
With Mailfilter you can define your own filters (rules) to determine which
e-mails should be delivered and which are considered waste. Rules are regular
expressions, so you can make use of familiar options from other mail delivery
programs such as e.g. procmail.
Mailfilter is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For
more information, see the COPYING file provided with the Mailfilter program.
The latest version of Mailfilter can be obtained from this web page:
http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/";
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I am a prospective Debian maintainer; I don't have a sponsor yet. I have discussed
my packaging with the upstream author (Andreas Bauer, baueran@users.sourceforge.net)
and I've built a first version of the mailfilter package. I did this under a potato-based system,
and I now understand (from browsing the Debian-mentors list archive that one should
do this under an unstable system. So, I need to install one and build it again.
Andreas wrote that he had spoken with several Debian guys about packaging mailfilter, but
nothing's happened yet and he never heard back from them. I saw no mention of mailfilter
on any of the WNPP pages, so I'll put in my bid to do this.
- Don Kennedy
San Diego, CA, USA
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