Re: Current "Swen" worm attack

["Jeff C," <nolongersafeto@userealemailsniff.com>]

"Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> wrote in message
news:m3k77zcy0w.fsf@insalien.org...
>
> I have an additional requirement.  Not only I want to prevent my
> mailbox from filling up, but I also do not want to download all of
> these emails, because with the sheer volume I'm getting (about 200
> spams a day), I'd blow up my download quota.  This means I do not want
> to do the filtering on the client (which I was doing in gnus), but I
> want to do it on the server before my client downloads the emails.
>
> So, today, I wrote an Ada program that does all that.  It's about 550
> SLOC in Ada, and uses libspopc to do the POP3 client stuff (and yes, I
> wrote a thick binding to it).  I also used a couple of generic
> containers from Charles.
>
> My solution uses POP3 to download just the headers of all mails, and
> delete those that match a set of regular expressions.  These regexes
> come directly from my ~/.emacs file, so that the server-side filtering
> uses the same rules as the client-side one.
>
> I ran it today and it deleted about 200 spams that had accumulated
> over 14 hours.  Now I will never even have to download their contents
> :)
>
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>
> Anyone feel this is worth a project on Savannah or SourceForge?
>
> -- 
> Ludovic Brenta.

Depends.. At the very least the bindings are worth a project. If you
think/expect you would
continue to update the rest of it then the whole thing should probably be a
project.