From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-09-23T14:19:38+09:00
Subject: Re: POP3Filter for SoBig.F Virus:

>
> "Austin Ziegler" <austin@halostatue.ca> wrote:
>
>> I've made more updates. Rather than just putting them here, I've
>> created a page at RubyGarden:
>>
>> http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?SoBigPopper
>>
>
>
> Thanks so much, Austin (and other contributors)
> for putting this together.
>
>
> daz
>
> (68MB backlog now cleared)


A word of warning: don't set the size threshold too small.  Yesterday, I
ran the following script (at home) all day while I was at work:

  while [ true ]; do
    yes | ruby pop3filter.rb
    sleep 300
  done

That guarded my inbox just nicely so I could check it at work.

Today, having noticed that quite a few small (1-2K) annoying Microsoft
emails were coming through, I lowered the size threshold to 1500 bytes. 
Until I rang home to get it stopped, no mail was getting through to me! 
For some reason, every email was matched, and thus killed, by the program!
 Until I get home to see what happened, I won't know what emails I missed
out on.

Cheers,
Gavin