GeckoFood's Journal: [geek] A Tale of Two Computers

So I now have two computers running at home, one running Linux and one running Windows 10. The Linux machine is my âoeeverything but emailâ system. The Windows system serves one single purpose â" filtering my email for me.

Why do I have hardware dedicated to running an email filtration system on a platform that's untrustworthy? There are a lot of email filtering applications around, but this one application is the only one I can find that does exactly what I want it to do and it works really well. It cleans out my pop3 mailbox for me of all the crap and leaves only legit emails behind. If it eliminates an email I want, it can put it back. It catches between 80-100 junk emails a day. Unfortunately, I have no way to install it under Wine â" it was discontinued about a year ago and the only way I have to register it when I install it is to use a registry capture that Windows knows how to insert into the registry for me. I have looked for other email filters and I have not found another one that works quite the same way.

I am going to try putting ReactOS in a VM and installing the filter there. If that works, the Windows machine is a dream that once was.

The Linux machine on the other hand is the workhorse. It does the image processing, documents, web surfing, limited gaming (I don't have a lot of time to play anymore) and development work when I am so inclined. I have not yet found a suitable video editing application but I am sure there's an application out there that will work â" I have not looked hard for one as the need for such is relatively recent. I can still do these on the Windows box until I find what I need.

Little by little, I am breaking what little hold MS still has on my computing.

Smells like oportunity

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Sounds like a project to me. Document well what you like about this e-mail filter, duplicate it in open source for linux, sell it as "free as in speech".

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[GeckoFood]

Sounds like a project to me

It may come to that, actually. What I have that works well under Windows is SpamEater Pro, a stand-alone mail application that can download message headers from the pop server, delete them, put them back and more. It works with blacklists as well as regex, whitelist and blacklist filters. The one thing it does not do is statistical analysis, and so far that's not really a concern though it would be a nice to have.

Since it has been discontinued, there's no easy way to make it work

procmail?

[jawtheshark]

procmail not good enough? Sure it takes time to write the filters, but it probably also took time to setup your current solution.

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[GeckoFood]

There is some promise there. I have not worked with this one but will give it a look. I do not mind writing rules - I am a decent coder and know my way around regex rules and whatnot. Syntax looks a little odd for procmail but not difficult.

Thanks for the recommend.

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[jawtheshark]

Let's just say that the architecture your described called for a procmail. Me? I have few rules. I use greylisting against spam (which has other disadvantages) and dropped POP3 like the hot potato it is. Unless you know what you do, you should use IMAP. That's what I tell most laymen, but you're obviously not in that category.