You may be able to use POPFile:
<http://popfile.sourceforge.net/>
to accomplish this as well.
Bruce
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As Chris wrote...
>Thanks Matthias. I thought the Blocklist in Spamsieve was a way of
>examining the mail and rejecting it *before* it was fully downloaded. I
>appreciate I would need access to the mailserver to do the job properly.
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>Much of this *should* be accomplished by my ISP who subscribe to the
>Cloudmark anti-spam service. Since most of the spam is the usual porn/
>meds stuff which Spamsieve identifies with no problem, I can only assume
>Cloudmark is not very good.
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>cheers,
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>Chris
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>On 6/7/07 Matthias Schmidt wrote:
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>>Am/On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 08:15:07 +0100 schrieb/wrote Chris:
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>>>A recent increase in the volume of spam I am receiving has made me a
>>>convert to Spamsieve, an excellent product with which I am well satisfied.
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>>>Although Spamsieve correctly bins the spam even after minimal training,
>>>is it possible to 'add sender to blocklist' (or similar) so it doesn't
>>>get downloaded in the first place? Every so often I could then do a
>>>bulk clearance at the mail server. The reason I ask is that much of the
>>>spam seems the same thing over and over.
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>>SpamSieve scans the mails after downloading from the server.
>>If you want to reject the mails before downloading you have to do that
>>on the mailserver.
>>for doing so, you need to have access to the mailserver. The rest
>>depends on the server software used.
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>>Thanks and all the best
>>
>>Matthias
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