On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 15:03, ahimsa wrote: > Greetings > This may have already been dealt with, and if so I apologise for > repetition ... > I am wanting to use a spam-filter for my POP3 dial-up account, where > Evolution 1.2.0 is my email client. Thus far, I have set some rules up > for sender/subject, but this is still reactive and I'd prefer to do this > more proactively if possible. I know with KMail - for e.g. - one can set > a command to execute that will launch a program to scan the POP3 account > and filter spam out according to pre-defined criteria without > downloading it, and once it has dropped/rejected the email that fits the > criteria, it will then download the remaining mail. Is there something > similar (both program and setting) that would accomplish the same thing > using Evolution?
I don't believe that the POP3 protocol will allow you to do filtering without downloading the whole message. It has been discussed on this list several times, but in Evo 1.2 you can set up a filter to pipe the message to a program (like SpamAssassin - www.apamassassin.org) and then process the message based on the return code from the program. However this requires downloading the entire message and sending it to the program to be filtered. See the list archives for details on setting up the filter to use SpamAssassin - it works really well. -- Bob Haddleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
