Gentlebeings... you are all on high-speed links and you're thinking "set up your own POP server..." As though that were no problem.
And no, it's not that I don't know just how to do just that. But my particular circumstances preclude that approach. In effect I need to (doing the entire job non-root from an ordinary user account) periodically query the mail on a server ... run it through filtering but also cross-comparison ... and delete the mail I don't want to log on [think TELEPHONE DIALUP, think POOR LINES] and laboriously retrieve. And I really -do- need to do it _that _way. At 07:26 AM 4/3/02 -0800, Rob McMillin wrote: >Sundial Services International, Inc. wrote: > >>Here's my problem. We use an external ISP to handle our mail, and of course >>we are getting pummeled with spam so fast that the mailbox can fill up >>within hours. We use a different ISP to handle the web-site and can set up >>programs on that. >> >>What I want to do, unless it has already been done, is to construct a Perl >>script that can then be run periodically as a cron-job. What this script >>would do is to interrogate each of the mailboxes we use, determine what's >>spam among them, and delete those messages so that only they come down the >>line when we download mail. >> >Ha! Fancy you should mention it. I have a friend who is in a very >similar situation. He has a publically visible mail address that he >*cannot* get rid of -- it's his business mail, and has been visible on >his site since he opened shop over five years ago. It's hosted at the >mailserver of the company that bought his business. He gets 100+ spams >to this address daily. What you want is to set up a separate server with >its own POP3 server, and use fetchmail with the following ~/.fetchmailrc > >poll <pop3_servername> protocol pop3 username <username> password <pwd> >mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" > >for each affected account, assuming you use POP3 to pick up your mail. >Then, follow the usual installation/delivery instructions for >SpamAssassin, and change all your mail clients to point to the new mail >server for delivery. It's not quite what you're asking for, because it >sounds like you're using IMAP for delivery, but I think it's the best >you can do under the circumstances. > >-- > http://www.pricegrabber.com > "We are smarter individually." -- Larry Niven > > > > > > Sundial Services International Inc. ============================================================= - Scottsdale AZ (480) 946-8259; fax (480) 874-2068 - Innovative solutions for complex database issues! - http://www.sundialservices.com/ - PGP public key at http://www.sundialservices.key/pgp.key _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
