On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 9:24 am -0400, Jim Pistrang wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>My ISP runs SpamAssasin and flags spam with a '::SPAM::' tag in the
>subject line.  However, they do not currently offer an option to delete
>spam on the server, so I am forced to download it and filter it in
>PowerMail.  Not difficult to do, but I would prefer to just delete it on
>the server and not download it at all.  Is this possible to do with
>PowerMail?  If not, what software can I use to do this?  I'm running OSX,
>latest version, with cable modem access to my ISP.

To quote myself from a couple of weeks ago:

>Since I'm still on a dial-up link, I'm also using Mailfilter, which is
>more or less an open source equivalent of POPMonitor, to delete the big
>spams before they leave the server. (Basic rule: anything over 20k from
>someone I don't know gets stomped.)

In your case you could easily write a mailfilter rule to delete messages
with the ::SPAM:: tag.

Oh, and mailfilter's at

<http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/>

(POPMonitor does much the same thing with a friendlier interface, but
isn't free.)

TimH


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