Hi All, I get tons of spam in my mailbox, mostly from job sites who continue to send me job listings months after I found a job and I've supposedly unsubscribed from their "service". These e-mails can be anything up to 200k in size and since I'm on dial up I was looking for a better solution than just filtering and sending to trash in K-Mail since I still have to download the things currently. Is there any way I can get the mail headers first and then just trash the e-mail or do I really have to download these things? Ta, Matt
Hi Matt, Some ISP's allow you to set up filters at their end to get rid of unwanted crap. Have a look at your ISP's website. ClaraNet (My ISP) has this facility. It very kindly gets rid of all those annoying paid4survey.net emails. Hope that helps Chris Chris *************************************************************************** E Mail Chris@glovercc.clara.co.uk WWW http://www.glovercc.clara.co.uk ICQ 18054759 Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject. -Anon On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Matt Parker wrote:
Hi All,
I get tons of spam in my mailbox, mostly from job sites who continue to send me job listings months after I found a job and I've supposedly unsubscribed from their "service". These e-mails can be anything up to 200k in size and since I'm on dial up I was looking for a better solution than just filtering and sending to trash in K-Mail since I still have to download the things currently. Is there any way I can get the mail headers first and then just trash the e-mail or do I really have to download these things?
Ta,
Matt
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Matt Parker <matt200@ntlworld.com> wrote:
[...] Is there any way I can get the mail headers first and then just trash the e-mail or do I really have to download these things?
Take a look at Mailfilter. It claims to be able to tidy up POP3 and IMAP servers before email is downloaded. I've not tried it myself, as I prefer to feed spam to a spamreport script by hand.
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 11:42:57AM +0100, Matt Parker said:
I get tons of spam in my mailbox, mostly from job sites who continue to send me job listings months after I found a job and I've supposedly unsubscribed from their "service". These e-mails can be anything up to 200k in size and since I'm on dial up I was looking for a better solution than just filtering and sending to trash in K-Mail since I still have to download the things currently. Is there any way I can get the mail headers first and then just trash the e-mail or do I really have to download these things?
Try taking a look at SpamAssassin. Be warn though you do need a decent CPU power (something like p200 or above) to get the mail checked for spam etc. If that's not to your liking, I could recommend you to look at http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/downloads/dot.procmailrc Which is basically(!) procmail work. I have my own version of procmailrc that I created from linuxbrit version. Give it a go. Be warned though, make sure you leave the emails on the server before finally going ahead. (Hi everyone btw, this is my first post to ALUG) -- (o_ .----------------------------------------. //\ | Craig Butcher | http://www.wizball.co.uk| V_/_ | - Using Debian GNU/Linux - | `----------------------------------------'
If you also run 'doze, you can use mailwasher. I run two boxes, before I log in to Linux I start up mailwasher on NT, then quit it and login to my Linux account. On 27-Apr-2002 Matt Parker wrote:
Hi All,
I get tons of spam in my mailbox, mostly from job sites who continue to send me job listings months after I found a job and I've supposedly unsubscribed from their "service". These e-mails can be anything up to 200k in size and since I'm on dial up I was looking for a better solution than just filtering and sending to trash in K-Mail since I still have to download the things currently. Is there any way I can get the mail headers first and then just trash the e-mail or do I really have to download these things?
Ta,
Matt
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