Forw: Re: Wishlist again... [marco@oostende.nl]

[Marco van Oostende <marco oostende nl>]

On 2003.09.26 09:32, Marco van Oostende wrote:
I requested something similar last week, but in a more global option:
> I use a mail filter to remove unwanted spam. Is it possible to shoot this
> program each time before chacking mail? Something like the Gnome
> Inbox Monitor applet 'command to run before checking mail'.
If it is programmed this way, we can use any pre-pop checker out there. You  
put in 'mailfilter', I put in 'smm --batch' etc.

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On 2003.09.26 01:02, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> 
> On 09.25, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> >
> >
> > http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/
> >
> 
> Hey !! This works great. With a personal stupid crontab like
> 
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> MAILTO=""
> 
> */1 * * * * mailfilter
> 
> and a limit of 100Kb of size, good by to the ton of 150Kb messages.
> 
> If we relay on this utility, all what is needed in balsa is a preference
> similar
> to the 'Filter messages through procmail', but global, not per account.
> Parhaps in Preferences:Mail Options:Incoming:
> 
> [ ] Check mail automatically every [ ] minutes
> [ ] Prefilter mail with 'mailfilter'
> 
> And if someone is bored, a dialog for configuring .mailfilterrc: copy
> the accounts info, filter by size...
> (i know, shut up and send code...)
> 
> Couldn't resist, I'm happy with my new nifty toy.
> 
> Hope this helps someone.
> 
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