[Tutor] Parsing email headers

[David Rock]

* Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> [2020-04-26 17:25]:
> 
> I'm not sure you can easily do this any longer in a way that integrates
> with Thunderbird... waiting for a barrage of comments to "use Mutt
> instead", etc.  After Mozilla changed the way plugins are authorized to

Use mutt instead  :-)

But more seriously, even mutt doesn't magically fix much for you.  It
does mail reading exceptionally well, but it does NOT do filtering.
You'd still have to write something to interface with through the
interface.
The main benefit you get from a terminal-based email client is it
doesn't inherently expose you "accidental opens" the way a GUI program
does (most exposures expect an environment in which to run; mutt, pine,
elm, etc don't provide that environment).

It sounds like what you are really looking for is pre-filter to
run through your mail first.  It would probably be a better option to
look into leveraging something like spamassassin. Purpose-built tools
for evaluating spam are almost certainly going to be more robust.
  
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David Rock
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