Deleting/Filtering mail from POP3 server before its download?

ekrem _ ekremg at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 24 03:26:38 PDT 2003


>From: David Landgren <david at landgren.net>
>To: ekrem _ <ekremg at hotmail.com>
>CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Deleting/Filtering mail from POP3 server before its download?
>Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:20:13 +0200
>
>ekrem _ wrote:
>>Hi people,
>>
>>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.

Ekrem

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