IMAP spam filtering?

Does anyone know if there's any software out there that can log onto a
remote IMAP server, run a spam filter against the contents (deleting or
moving to a quarantine folder), then log off? I access this mailbox from a
number of different locations, so downloading the mail and running a
filter locally isn't an option. It's also a provided mailbox, so
installing software onto the server is out too.

I have windows boxes that are also available if there's a solution there, but I
have a hunch that I'm more likely to find an answer on linux somehow :-)

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Tim

|Does anyone know if there's any software out there that can log onto a
|remote IMAP server, run a spam filter against the contents (deleting or
|moving to a quarantine folder), then log off? I access this mailbox from a
|number of different locations, so downloading the mail and running a
|filter locally isn't an option. It's also a provided mailbox, so
|installing software onto the server is out too.

Try the query "imap spam filter" to freshmeat.net. IMAPSpamAssassin
looks interesting.
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"Tim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
newsan.2003.07.13.14.32.36.486195@TRASHmyrealbox .com...
> Does anyone know if there's any software out there that can log onto a
> remote IMAP server, run a spam filter against the contents (deleting or
> moving to a quarantine folder), then log off? I access this mailbox from a
> number of different locations, so downloading the mail and running a
> filter locally isn't an option. It's also a provided mailbox, so
> installing software onto the server is out too.
>
> I have windows boxes that are also available if there's a solution there,
but I
> have a hunch that I'm more likely to find an answer on linux somehow :-)

A more likely 'linux' approach would be to find or build an email server
where you control delivery (or at least your own .procmailrc) and forward
all your email there either through direct forwarding if allowed or picking
it
up with fetchmail if not. Then you configure procmail to run spamassassin
before the mail lands in the box you access from all your clients. If that
isn't
possible due to firewalling or machine availability, some imap clients have
filtering capability built in. Evolution and Outlook (full version, not
Outlook
Express) can apply filters to imap folders but there can be an annoying
delay at startup when you do and the filters only seem to be applied by the
first client that sees a message.

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Les Mikeselll
(E-Mail Removed)

"Tim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<pan.2003.07.13.14.32.36.486195@TRASHmyrealbo x.com>...
> Does anyone know if there's any software out there that can log onto a
> remote IMAP server, run a spam filter against the contents (deleting or
> moving to a quarantine folder), then log off? I access this mailbox from a
> number of different locations, so downloading the mail and running a
> filter locally isn't an option. It's also a provided mailbox, so
> installing software onto the server is out too.
>
> I have windows boxes that are also available if there's a solution there, but I
> have a hunch that I'm more likely to find an answer on linux somehow :-)

http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=IMAP+...ojects&x=0&y=0