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Here's my problem. We use an external ISP to handle our mail, and of course we are getting pummeled with spam so fast that the mailbox can fill up within hours. We use a different ISP to handle the web-site and can set up programs on that. What I want to do, unless it has already been done, is to construct a Perl script that can then be run periodically as a cron-job. What this script would do is to interrogate each of the mailboxes we use, determine what's spam among them, and delete those messages so that only good mail comes down the line when we download mail. In other words, this script is going to connect through POP3 to the other mail server, get the text of all the pending mail (up to 5MB of data), compare and run it through the wringer, DELE the bad stuff, and exit. It'll do that about twice an hour. It also occurs to me that the script might be able to compare the message texts to determine when duplicate or near-duplicate messages occur, either in a single message or among several mailboxes. (e.g. extract a snippet of text from each message and compare the samples to find those that are a strong match to similar snippets in other messages). This is my so-called "honeypot" idea. We actually set up a fake-to-us e-mail address that no one ever uses for correspondence, and it's now littered with copies of the spam. Once again, I'd like to know if anyone out there has already done that. Your script is very valuable to us all. Please [also] reply direct to this e-mail since I presently do not subscribe to this list. -Mike Robinson Technical Director Sundial Services International Inc. ============================================================= - Scottsdale AZ (480) 946-8259; fax (480) 874-2068 - Innovative solutions for complex database issues! - http://www.sundialservices.com/ - PGP public key at http://www.sundialservices.key/pgp.key _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
