[kde-linux] POP Filters

[Gaffer.]

Hi David,

On Thursday 18 October 2007 07:50, david inscribed thus:
> Gaffer. wrote:
> > Hi Werner,
> >
> > On Wednesday 17 October 2007 19:19, Werner Joss inscribed thus:
> >> Am Mittwoch, 17. Oktober 2007 20:12 schrieben Sie:
> >>>>> Running SuSE 10.2 Kmail 1.9.5 KDE 3.5.5.  I don't seem to be
> >>>>> able to get "POP filters" to work.  My mail server running
> >>>>> "Spam Assassin" tags the spam with "X-Spam-Flag = Yes".   But
> >>>>> POP filter doesn't seem to delete them from the server,  they
> >>>>> get downloaded and caught by  "Filter Rules"  which correctly
> >>>>> puts them in the wasetbin.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is it me or doesn't POP filters work like I expect it to !
> >>>>> ie read the headers and delete them from the server as
> >>>>> instructed.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks:
> >>>
> >>> I could be wrong,
> >>
> >> I'm relative sure, you are :)
> >> - as I understand the OP, there is already spamassassin running
> >> at his ISP's mailserver, tagging suspect emails with
> >> "X-Spam-Flag = Yes" _before_ something else happens.
> >> so he could set up a pop filter which just looks at this to
> >> decide to delete mails on the server. which doesn't seem to
> >> work.
> >>
> >> werner
> >
> > Yes that is exactly what I mean.
> >
> > My assumption was that by creating a POP filter I could simply
> > delete everything tagged without downloading it.  In practice the
> > POP filter mechanism in Kmail does not seem to do that.  Either I
> > am doing something wrongly, or the POP filtering is broken.
>
> I seem to recall, from my days long ago using Pegasus Mail for
> Windows, an otherwise-excellent mail client handicapped by being a
> Windows program,

Yes I remember "Pegasus"   Does it still exist ?

> that the only way POP filters can work with mail 
> is to download it FIRST. Pegasus had a function that could scan the
> headers from your mail server, then you could mark and selectively
> delete mail. But all mail filtering required downloading the mail
> before a filter could act on it.

Yes you could do that with "Pegasus"   Which when I was on "Dial up"  
was great.   But that was in my days on the dark side. ;-)

-- 
Best Regards:
             Derrick.