I don't use POP. Plus, the KMail POP3 filters require confirmation. Very annoying if you leave your machine to autocheck.
On Saturday, January 10, 2004 6:17 pm, Anders Ellensh�j Andersen wrote: > On Saturday 10 January 2004 21:00, Antiphon wrote: > > I'm not running the latest CVS so can someone tell me if KMail has the > > ability to filter attachments? As of 1.5.4, KMail doesn't have this > > functionality It really ought to. I'm sick of Windows viruses clogging up > > my inbox. > > This particular nuisance is in fact easy to get rid of. At least if you use > a pop server. You have to turn on pop filtering for your account, and set > it to trigger at a reasonably low size mail. 50kb is good. > Now add two pop filters. > The first filter checks if your email address is in the To: header. Set it > to download all mail that triggers this filter. > Add a second filter that always triggers and have it simply nuke everything > else. > > How this works: > > Windows virus spam never has your email address in the actual to: header > field, but real people sending you attachments almost always have. So you > simply download all "real mail" and nuke everything else. > Now if people cc/bcc you, this will unfortunately kill all those. I find > this to be acceptable. > > The cool thing is that you don't even waste bandwith downloading the entire > mail, you only get the headers, and the filter then decides whether to get > the mail or kill it on the server. > > Anders > > -- > This email was generated using KMail from KDE 3.1.4 on Debian GNU/Linux
