[warning: 99% OT] does anything like this exist ?...

[Fred Pacquier]

Maciej Dziardziel <fiedzia at fiedzia.prv.pl> said :

>> Is there a ready-made tool that fills this need ?
> 
> I don't know any, but writing such is not a big problem - python has
> builtin support for pop3 and mail processing (examples are in its
> documentation), so just download mail, pipe it through spamassassin
> and eventually delete from server.
 
I sort of knew this one would be forthcoming :)

I won't say I haven't been tempted - like everyone else here I've written 
my own 'experimental' POP3 checker using the python standard lib, and 
several more from the 'yet another' category... but I know my limits.

Also, over the years I've had my share of "unique/original" (heh) ideas, 
spending ages to implement them, only to find out afterwards that someone 
had already done it, and generally much better... just like Andrew Dalke 
with sb_culler in this case.

I'm not looking for a pet project here, just to solve a problem. If I can 
do it in a few hours of tinkering with a ready-made answer I certainly 
won't try to roll my own. If I were a student, or in that mythical state 
between retirement and brain-rot, maybe, but for now it's definitely Plan C 
(or D :-)

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