On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 11:48:43AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (24/09/03 04:22), Pigeon wrote: > > I've just found getting mailfilter up on woody to be a suitable > > means of passing the time while microwaving pizzas. It's dead easy: > I think my pizza would be crisped by now ;) but thanks for this. > Coincidentally, I was trying to confilgure mailfilter last night to > find, I couldn't invoke it from getmail and so downloaded fetchmail. So > your posting is timely ;) > > > > > 1) apt-get install mailfilter - it only depends on libc, libstdc++ and > > debconf, so no baddies there. :-) > Installed through dselect - no problem > > > 2) modify ~/.fetchmailrc with the 'preconnect "mailfilter"' line, > > which goes in a slightly non-obvious place, as in my example > > (attached); only one 'preconnect' line is needed to check multiple > > mailboxes, as mailfilter gets the info on which boxes to check from > > its own .rc, not from fetchmail. > Have done this but want to avoid wiping mails off the server for two > days (what I currently do with getmail). Haven't cracked how to do this > yet ... so using mailfilter alone in "TEST" mode
I don't think you can do this straightforwardly. It would probably be possible to do something yucky like filtering on the Date: header with a cron job to alter the filter expression in .mailfilterrc at midnight... > > 3) modify my attached ~/.mailfilterrc with your POP3 username and > > password details. The DENY rules to filter out viral crap are > > translated from posts by Greg Lehey and David Lloyd on the LinuxSA > > list. The ALLOW lines are to cope with the possibility of list > > traffic arriving with large log files attached which would > > otherwise be knocked out by the MAXSIZE limit. You must have the > > log file. You can add a line 'TEST=yes' to run in 'dummy' mode > > without actually deleting everything. The DENY and ALLOW lines must > > not contain line breaks. > I've used your filters only (having commented out the example ones > supplied) but when I look at mailfilter.log it seems to have deleted > everything (in TEST mode luckily). I can send the log file if needed; > meanwhile I attach my mailfilterrc file. Can you tell me what I've done > wrong? Most peculiar... it scarcely differs from mine except in ordering. Differences being that you've explicitly set MAXLENGTH and MAXSIZE_ALLOW - but to the default values, so that shouldn't make any difference; and a couple of spurious spaces appear to have crept into the DENY rule based on attachment file extensions - probably some word wrap issue along the way - which should do nothing but make that rule slightly less effective. Perhaps you could set VERBOSE to 5 and post a log file? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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