Re: [OT] Verification required?
Re: [OT] Verification required?
- Subject: Re: [OT] Verification required?
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:25:53 -0800
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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