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NAME
filtermail - Filters e-mail, gets rid of spam
SYNOPSIS
filtermail [OPTION]...
DESCRIPTION
filtermail is a very flexible utility to get rid of unwanted spam
mails, before having to go through the trouble of downloading them into
the local computer. It offers support for one or many POP accounts and
is especially useful for dialup connections via modem, ISDN, etc.
filtermail connects to any POP mail box and compares part of its con‐
tent to a set of user defined filter rules. That way the spam gets
deleted directly on the mail server.
With filtermail you can define your own filters (rules) to determine
which e-mails should be delivered and which are considered waste. Rules
are Regular Expressions, so you can make use of familiar options from
other mail delivery programs such as procmail(1) for example.
RETURN VALUE
The filtermail program normally returns 0 but -1 if an error occurs.
However, if it has been invoked with the return-value command line
switch, it gives back a positive integer in case there are messages on
the POP server. Empty POP accounts would then result in a return value
of 0. Using the switch, filtermail can be embedded into a shell script
more easily.
CONFIGURATION
The behaviour of filtermail is controlled by command-line options and a
configuration file. The program will not start without it. Example con‐
figurations can be looked up in the filtermailex(5) man page, in the
INSTALL document or inside the doc/ directory of the filtermail distri‐
bution.
By default filtermail tries to read $HOME/.filtermailrc to get all its
settings from. This is the place where all changes should be made,
unless it is explicitly specified otherwise. A comprehensive list of
all supported options and keywords can be found in the filtermailrc(5)
man page.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Display help information
-L, --logfile=FILE
Specify logfile location
-M, --filtermailrc=FILE
Specify rcfile location
-r, --return-value
Enable additional return values
-t, --test
Simulate deletes
-i, --ignore-time-stamps
Ignore invalid Message-ID time stamps (Do not use unless you
know better!)
-v, --verbose=LEVEL
Specify level of verbosity
-V, --version
Display version information
SEE ALSO
filtermailrc(5), filtermailex(5), procmail(1), regex(7)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2000-2014 Andreas Bauer <baueran@gmail.com>
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is
NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
filtermail January 2009 filtermail(1)
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