My mail server uses SpamAssasin to give each incoming message a spam
score and adds a header like this....
X-Spam-Score: 16.9 (****************)
MIME_ODD_CASE,FROM_HAS_MIXED_NUMS,MAY_BE_FORGED,NO_REAL_NAME,FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,CLICK_BELOW,EMAIL_MARKETING,WEIRD_PORT,CLICK_HERE_LINK,FREQ_SPAM_PHRASE,CTYPE_JUST_HTML,FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD
Neat, huh?
I need a perl script (or freeware, or cheap shareware) that will move
(IE, delete and forward-without-modification) a message from one POP3
account to another if the spam score NUMBER is greater than, say, 10
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Request for Question Clarification by
webadept-ga
on
06 Sep 2002 20:23 PDT
What do you mean "move to another POP3 account" Are you on the sever?
is it yours? The reason I ask is I could write a script that would get
all the new email, check the SA Number and "send" or "forward" the
message to a new account, but everything is then going to look like it
came from a single address... Unless you got into header manipulation
and rebuilt them, and then used a type of PORT access to the next
account, which gets a bit beyond your current bid. Not much, but
still.
If you are okay with everything coming from "you" rather than everyone
else. I could put the original address from the "sent from" field into
the "reply-to" field, so if you replied it would go to the right
place. That's pretty simple.
webadept-ga
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Clarification of Question by
donphiltrodt-ga
on
07 Sep 2002 01:23 PDT
After giving it some thought(based on your comments), I'm changing the
question.
Since you mentioned that you could write a (perl?) script, here's the
spec...
Check box XYZ every N seconds. If the numeric value found in the
X-Spam-Score header is greater than the threshold, delete the message
from the server and append the entire message (incl headers) to the
text file.
Configurable parameters...
pop3 server
username
password
check every N seconds
path of text file
spam score threshold
Lemme know what price you require.
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Request for Question Clarification by
webadept-ga
on
07 Sep 2002 01:49 PDT
What OS are you running? Doesn't really matter, but it might, and do
you know how to install MODS on that system? Or are going to need
everything from scratch?
webadept-ga
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Request for Question Clarification by
webadept-ga
on
07 Sep 2002 01:52 PDT
I just read the comment below and it brought up something.. if you are
signing on to a remote Unix computer, and running this, the connection
will have to stay open, otherwise it will stop when you close
connection. I'm under the impression that you are running this on your
desk computer or home computer. Let me know about this as well.
webadept-ga
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Clarification of Question by
donphiltrodt-ga
on
07 Sep 2002 15:30 PDT
>What OS are you running?
WinXP Pro
>Doesn't really matter...
Agreed.
> Do you know how to install MODS on that system?
While not a perl coder, I use Perl scripts constantly and can PPM any
module needed. Current version: 5.6.1.
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Clarification of Question by
donphiltrodt-ga
on
07 Sep 2002 15:33 PDT
> if you are signing on to a remote Unix computer,
> and running this, the connection will have to stay open
I'm not using a unix shell account in any way. I have Perl 5.6.1
installed locally. My local computer will run the Perl script.
> I'm under the impression that you are running this on your
> desk computer or home computer.
Correct. Thank you for your precision.
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Request for Question Clarification by
webadept-ga
on
08 Sep 2002 23:49 PDT
Hi,
I'm going to turn this loose on the other researchers here, with some
explanation to help them along. I got the basis of the program to work
using the Mail::POP3Client mod. Everything works except the delete
function off the server. It marks the message as deleted, but its not.
At least on my system its not, which kinda defeats the whole purpose
and that is to get the spam out of your POP3 account, into a file and
off the server. This appears to only be a problem with the mod that is
for Windows (go figure) as on my Linux box it works just fine, in fact
I'm using it now :-)
So, if anyone can find or make a better fix for this, more power to
you. Sorry to have tied this one up for so long, but I didn't want to
admit defeat so easily.
webadept-ga
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Clarification of Question by
donphiltrodt-ga
on
09 Sep 2002 11:32 PDT
>Everything works except the delete
>function off the server. It marks
>the message as deleted, but its not.
>my Linux box it works just fine, in fact
>I'm using it now :-)
As long as the script works correctly on your Linux system, upload
your script as the answer and I'll use other resources to troubleshoot
it on Win32.
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