virus annoyance

[JoeHill]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:21:07 -0400
bob findlay <fcsoft-rxKNY4w4koG3ikBYyZqyVg at public.gmane.org> uttered:

> I recently converted all my email from Eudora on an old Windows 95 box
> over to Kmail.
> 
> I'm still on a dialup service.      Unfortunately as far as I can tell
> Kmail doesn't have a way to clip emails with attachments as Eudora
> did.    With the rash of Microsoft virus emails lately I'm having to
> wait considerable time to download all the virus attachments.     This
> morning alone I got 6Meg worth.
> 
> There has to be a better way.     Any suggestions?  pine?

Mailfilter has been reasonably successful at deleting them off the
server for me before fetchmail downloads my mail.

There's a howto I wrote here:

http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MailFilter#Fetchmail_Mailfilter

It's been expanded upon quite a bit, but the basics are pretty simple.
If you do decide to use Mailfilter, I've got some example RegExp filters
that have caught a lot of the recent virus-laden stuff, and I let
procmail take care of the rest.

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