Telnet with RR

[Sarah Reichelt]

>>> There's a pop library at http://www.troz.net/Rev/ that would probably
>>> serve your needs better than telnet.
>>
>> That Library worked great.  I'm trying to make a program that sits on 
>> my
>> taskbar and silently logs into a mail server every few minutes to 
>> scan my
>> email for SPAM.  Then if it finds any it removes it so my mail client 
>> will
>> never see it.
>>
>> Any idea if anyone else has done this type of thing in Revolution?
>>
> I'm not sure if it's been done by rev before. OTOH It might be simpler 
> to
> install a SPAM filter into your mail server and then just use a rule 
> in your
> mail client to delete mailes your SPAM filter has identified as SPAM.
>
Yes, it would be simpler, but Derek's way deletes the spam before it 
can be downloaded, so saving bandwidth. If you have got my POP library 
working, then the next step is to work out how your Rev program can 
tell what is spam and what isn't. I have a similar sort of thing 
running here but I key off the spam header that my ISP puts into all 
emails. Check the source of your incoming emails to see of there is 
anything like "X-Spam" or "X-Virus" which you can read from the 
headers.

If that is no good, you have two options: inclusive or exclusive 
filtering. Do you only allow known contacts to email you or do you 
maintain a list of key words or senders that identify spam for you? 
It's a tricky question and if you are deleting the emails before 
downloading, you will never know if you delete a genuine email.

Cheers,
Sarah