From: Gil Freund (gilf_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Thu 01 Jan 2004 - 00:31:31 IST
How about an imap proxy? SpamAssasign has such a feature, IIRC.
This means that you Pine will connect to an IMAP server in localhost
which will then query the remote IMAP server.
guy keren wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Alon Altman wrote:
>
>
>>On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, guy keren wrote:
>>
>>
>>>i tried checking for the possibility to have spam filtering with the
>>>following configuration:
>>>
>>>remote mail server, accessed using 'pine', via an imap server.
>>>
>>>- thus, i cannot install a spam-filter on the remote server.
>>>- the local procmail is never activated, and thus seems to be un-useable
>>>here.
>>>- i can't use fetchmail - this is imap, not pop3.
>>>- couldn't find a way, in pine's configuration, on how to set up a filter
>>>that passes the message via an external program.
>>>- searching for a solution using google, as well as reading spamassassin's
>>>documentation, just shows solutions that assume you can set spamassassin
>>>to run via procmail. this does not seem to work for my setup.
>>>
>>>is there any solution, _WITHOUT_ replacing the mail client, and without
>>>reverting to pop3?
>>
>>IIRC, fetchmail supports IMAP, so use fetchmail+procmail and then either
>>use the downloaded mail locally, or use IMAP to upload the mail back to the
>>server.
>
>
> this setup defeats the purpose of using imap in the first place - to be
> able to see all messages _without_ downloading the messages themselves.
>
> i'm beginning to think i'm asking for the imposible - to filter the
> letter, i need to first download it. however, i should be able to filter
> out by the message headers that _are_ downloaded by imap, thus eliminating
> a large part of the spam, and only then downloading the rest of it for
> further inspection...
>
> oh, well. no spam solution for me...
>
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