From: William Park <opengeometry@...>
Date: 2004-10-18T08:39:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Code for remote E-mail cleaning?

James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@neurogami.com> wrote:
> I've discovered that, for all its good points, the Mozilla Thunderbird 
> E-mail client is braindead when it comes to malformed mail headers.  It 
> seems that if an inbox contains any mail with a bad header, then 
> Thunderbird simply stops fetching more mail from that inbox.  Period.
> 
> One then has to manually delete the offending message.
> 
> I  can think of any number of ways to get around this, and do not really 
> want a litany of which mail reader is the best.  Rather, I'm curious to 
> know if anyone has or knows of a simple Ruby app that can connect to a 
> mailbox, inspect the messages, and delete any mail that meets some 
> criteria (including dubious headers) while leaving the rest alone.
> 
> In the long run I need to get some spam filtering running on the mail 
> server, but short term it would be nice to essentially automate what I'm 
> doing  now via web mail.
> 
> I'm inclined to think that writing such an app would not be too hard; 
> I've written some basic mail fetchers using some available libs, but 
> would rather not reinvent the wheel.  I also want to be sure that I do 
> not accidentally mark mail as read while processing messages.

Perhaps you can something useful in
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/popchecksh/
At the moment, it's shell script designed to delete Swen/Netsky worms
on POP3 server.  But, you can delete anything you want, really. :-)

-- 
William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Open Geometry Consulting, Toronto, Canada