popcheck.sh
A shell script to check remote POP3 server, and delete Microsoft Swen, Netsky, and Sober spams. It gets the username and password from Fetchmail's configuration file.
| Tags | Communications Email Post-Office POP3 Shells |
|---|---|
| Implementation | Unix Shell |
Recent releases
- 18 Jul 2005 11:57
Changes: If the remote POP3 server returns an error (-ERR), this release will skip to the next email message instead of terminating the whole script.
- 05 Jun 2005 04:07
Changes: This release was updated to catch some Microsoft Swen worms which use boundary pattern with no double quotes ("..."). If the message size is large, then more number of lines are tested, instead of the fixed 20 lines before.
- 04 May 2005 02:39
Changes: This version detects the Microsoft Sober worm which is about 76kB in size.
- 17 Apr 2005 01:23
Changes: The procmail rc file "popcheck.rc" is now used instead of "egrep" to match for spam. This allows users to add spam patterns from their own ~/.procmailrc. Spam headers are saved in a "spam" file for future reference.
- 06 Dec 2004 02:59
Changes: The ability to download email was removed, since it duplicated what Fetchmail already does.
