[Spambayes] RE: pop3 culler

[Coe, Bob]

If Andrew's PC has a full-time connection to the Internet, he might be able to do it without even writing a script. The PC would be allowed to download everything, accommodating the ISP's restriction on mailbox size. Then assuming a firewall penetrable by an authenticated client, Andrew would connect his laptop to his PC, download what he wants, leave what he prefers to read later, and delete the rest. I'm assuming that the Spambayes POP3 proxy, which I haven't used, functions as both a POP3 client and a POP3 server. If it doesn't, there are other proxies (VPOP3, for example) that do.

Bob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richie Hindle [mailto:richie at entrian.com]
> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 6:30 AM
> To: Andrew Dalke; spambayes at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Spambayes] pop3 culler
> 
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> > the culler, which connects every, say, 30 minutes and deletes spams.
> 
> My approach would be to use the SpamBayes POP3 proxy (sb_server.py) as-is,
> and write a script that used Python's POP3 client module to connect,
> retrieve the emails, look at the X-Spambayes-Classification header, and
> delete the ones marked as spam.  If I weren't storing the messages, I'd
> set a high spam threshold.
> 
> I'd then publish the script on the SpamBayes Wiki at
> http://entrian.com/sbwiki 8-)