I have an excellent plan for a comprehensive spam buster. But, it needs filtering capability beyond anything I have seen except a thoroughly custom-programmed Linux server. I think it is not very far from The Bat!'s current capability. Here is the gist:
1. All incoming email checked to see if "sender" is on AOK list. 2. If #1 is "yes", deliver. 3. If #1 is "no", see if "New Approval AOK <timestamp in epoch-days>" is in body. 4. If timestamp is invalid (not within thirty days of right now), delete. 5. If #3 is "no", send message to "Holding" folder, and send autoreply to sender explaining the email gateway, asking for a simple quoted reply. 6. If #3 is "yes", add sender to "Approved" list, send autoreply promising prompt delivery of previously held messages, and delete. 7. All messages more than 30 days old in Holding folder are deleted. Missing functions: (a) Timestamp macro, positive decimal integer value in epoch-days. (b) Ability to stimulate a filter-run on a whole folder (the Holding bin) via a filter-run on a message (incoming) (c) Ability to specify named filter blocks that can be turned off and on by a menu item or tray-bar icon. Perhaps this would be good for the "wish list". A friend of mine is siccing some hot-shot programmer friends of his on a standalone tray icon applet which will do this by filtering SMTP/POP3/IMAP/HTTP; but I would like to see this in The Bat! also. -- Jonathan E. Brickman http://joshuacorps.org Live forever. If you don't know how, or aren't sure, please ask, and I will tell you. ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60q FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/
