(announce) deleting spams on POP server

From: William Park (opengeometry_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 04/18/05


Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 23:55:20 GMT

Latest update of my 'popcheck.sh' (version 1.3),

    http://freshmeat.net/projects/popchecksh/
or
    http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/index.html#spam

now uses Procmail rcfile to test for spam, instead of 'egrep' as was
done before. Although either method is okey for Microsoft Swen/Netsky
worms, the main benefit of using Procmail rcfile is that you can add
recipes from your own ~/.procmailrc to detect and delete other spams.

Usage:
        popcheck.sh [rcfile spamfile]

Default 'rcfile' is ~/popcheck.rc, and default 'spamfile' is ~/spam.
The script checks the headers of each message on POP server. If spam
pattern is detected by 'rcfile', then the header will be saved to ~/spam
for future reference, and the message on the server will be deleted.

-- 
William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>, Toronto, Canada
Slackware Linux -- because it works.


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