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[Conor Daly]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 04:15:11PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Colm Buckley thought:
> 
> The list manager is me.  It would require a couple of hacks into
> mailman and/or the MTA on lugh, neither of which I'm particularly
> inclined to do, just to deal with the *tiny* problem of spam to
> ilug at linux.ie.
> 
> I repeat, spam is a client-side issue; you have to deal with it
> *yourself*.
> 
Might I suggest Marco Fioretti's "Delete mail from pop server without
downloading" solution posted to mutt-users?


| I have managed to put together a first version
| of a script which deletes selected messages from a pop3
| server without downloading them.
|
| The messages to be deleted can be marked dynamically
| from within mutt.
|
| More details and source code at:
|
| http://web.tiscalinet.it/marco_web/popfilter.html          

It's been hooked for mutt but AFAIR, the hook for mutt consists of a 

formail -XFrom: -XSubject: -XMessage-ID: >> some_file

and the rest is MUA independent and is mostly perl.  Within mutt, it's
simply a matter of a keybinding to the formail line above to eliminate a
thread or sender from your pop downloads.  I've not tried it out yet but
must get around to it some day...
 
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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

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