From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 05:24:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B62D416A4B3 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 05:24:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sferics.mongueurs.net (sferics.mongueurs.net [81.80.147.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96DE543FDF for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 05:24:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@landgren.net) Received: from landgren.net (81-80-147-206.bpinet.com [81.80.147.206]) by sferics.mongueurs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08A4BA9B6; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:24:50 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3F718D20.6090702@landgren.net> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:25:04 +0200 From: David Landgren Organization: A thousand golden eyes are watching User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030718 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ekrem _ References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deleting/Filtering mail from POP3 server before its download? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:24:52 -0000 ekrem _ wrote: [...] >>> I'd like to be able to delete my emails from my ISP's POP3 server, >>> especially to avoid >>> the recent bombardment of the W32.swen.A virus which come with a >>> 150kb+ attachment. >>> So I'm looking for such a filter or spam detector which will delete >>> from spam directly from the POP server. >> >> >> >> I can't vouch as to whether it works because I don't use POP, but the >> following program was posted to Perlmonks yesterday. >> >> http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=292982 >> >> David >> > > Thanks David, and to Bart Lateur (the author of the perl script), > > I'm using the perl script from the above link and it's working fine. > It's already saving me > download time and bandwidth. Great news. You should post to the page in question and relate your success. You don't have to create an account, Perlmonks supports slashdot anonmymous-coward-type posts. I'm sure other people would like to hear confirmation that the scripts works from a third party. David :x