On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Neil Smith wrote:
> As a dial-up user with a large phone bill, if I were to receive *lots* of
> spam, wouldn't I have to pay to download the messages, and again to send a
> reply? Is there any way to set up the spam filter to delete files from the
> server rather than download em first? Can do this in m$ outlook so it's
> obviously possible, but that's by keying on the 'from' name, which IMHO
> tends to hop around as spam accounts get closed down.
Most 'nix machines have procmail running. If you have a shell
account, you can use it. All mail is filtered and dealt with at
the ISP level, and you never have to download it if you don't want
to.
In my case, my webhost is already pretty loaded, so living in
a place with unlimited phone usage for a set fee, it's just as
easy for me to download everything and deal with it on my machine.
The volume of spam targetted at me is so low that I barely notice
it anyway.
IF it ever came to pass that someone tried to mailbomb me,
THEN, I'd go ahead and stick that single procmail filter on my
account at the webhost.
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