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[ pop3spam ]
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Introduction
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In the last couple of weeks I received lots of unsolicited emails (aka spam).
That alone is already annoying, but it's even worse if the messages
are very large as well. This is especially true with a rather limited bandwidth.
Hence, I wrote pop3spam which connects to a POP3 server and deletes all
unwanted messages "in-place". pop3spam is written and distributed
under the GNU General Public License which means that its source code is
freely-distributed and available to the general public.
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Overview
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Description
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pop3spam is a POP3 client which connects to a POP3
server and deletes unsolicited mail. It's possible to
check for messages that exceed a certain limit and to
scan header lines for special patterns (regular
expressions). If a message has been identified as
unsolicited, it can be deleted directly from the POP3
server without the need to download it first.
Eventually your normal mail-retrieval utility (e.g.
fetchmail) can gather all (cleaned) mail as usual.
The program is intended for people with low bandwidth.
It's very annoying if you first have to download lots
of large messages just for the sole purpose of deleting
them afterwards because your local spam filter
debunked them as spam. It's also annoying to download
very large messages (attachments) at all.
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Download
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You can download pop3spam as a tarball compressed either as
.tar.gz or .tar.bz2.
Note that you need Philip Hazel's Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library
(PCRE) in order to build pop3spam.
pop3spam doesn't use any hard wired regular expressions so it should basically
work with any recent version.
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Documentation
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pop3spam comes with the two man pages pop3spam(1) and pop3spamrc(5).
There's also a simple configuration file which can be found in the directory
doc/ in the source tree. See also README and INSTALL for generic installation
instructions.
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Links
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Here are some links regarding pop3spam:
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