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Re: [fetchmail]Idea for a new feature?

2002-02-24 08:18:43
From: Scott Porter <scott(_at_)javascript-games(_dot_)org>

Hi,

 Basically, I'd like fetchmail to be able to scan the text coming through
from the POP as it's downloading each mail, and if a pattern is matched
anywhere (eg: "I send you this file*") then the connection to the POP is
terminated, the index of the message stored, then a reconnect, and upon
reconnection, a dele of the matched message. This is assuming a download
cannot be stopped, and the connection to the server maintained (been a LONG
time since I read any RFCs on this subject!)

Aaaargh, no, no, no!  Or something like that :>

If you want a virus scanner, then use a virus scanner (I'd strongly recommend amavis - www.amavis.org). If you keep programs simple there is less to go wrong, besides blocking on subject can provide a silly number of false positives, one example:

The company I work for filters web access. Amongst other things, URLs are checked for "questionable" words. Suddenly I can't access http://babelfish.altavista.com/ 'cos it contains the word "babe"...

Or what about that email from your partner just to say "I love you"...

Let's keep fetchmail doing what it's good at - downloading email. Leave filtering to the other 2 dozen solutions out there.


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