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Re: [OT] Verification required?

At 09:51a -0700 12/29/2003, Doug McNutt didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:

At 18:18 -0800 12/28/03, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
I wrote my own spam filter in Perl. It runs on my ISP account, and deletes 99% of incoming spam. Spam accounts for about 90% of my incoming mail (measured in bytes; I'll eventually add real statistical reporting to my script. Since the spam is removed before downloading, my client app (Eudora) doesn't even see it.

I have done something similar but it uses TOP and DELE requests to my POP3 account from a Linux box operated locally. It might even be on-topic because the Linux box makes an http request to a Mac 8500, running OS 9.1, to activate an AppleScripted CLI which tells Eudora to read mail immediately after a flushing pass by Linux. I haven't tried moving the perl script to the server and I'd be interested in just how you do it.

I operate directly on the inbox file, parsing it myself. No POP, just read/print commands to purge any unwanted messages.

It's a command-line script with a VT100-type progress display. Eventually I will set up an automatic version to filter messages in real time before they even hit the inbox (using the .forward file to redirect to the script), but I want to tweak my rules file and whitelists/blacklists a bit more first.

I'd also be interested in a mechanism for including email addresses in a white list without exposing them to harvesting from storage on the server. I'd like to allow a potential correspondent to ask, via html, if he is on my white list.

hmm. sure, that could be done. Interesting idea.

Check the X-password header in this message. Would such a thing be useful?

Not sure what you mean here.


-boo
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References: 
 >[OT] Verification required? (From: Christian Jon Anderson <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [OT] Verification required? (From: Graff <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [OT] Verification required? (From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [OT] Verification required? (From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>)



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