Listening on port

[Beholder]

Hello,
I want to write a spam filter, and for that I have to
listen on the incoming mail port in order to catch the
arriving mail messages (from any server) and filter them.
How can I listen on a port and catch any transportation
going through it?
Thanks.

 

[IBM Salesman]

Hello,
I want to write a spam filter, and for that I have to
listen on the incoming mail port in order to catch the
arriving mail messages (from any server) and filter them.
How can I listen on a port and catch any transportation
going through it?
Thanks.

Why do you have to do that?

Why don't you use an Outlook Interop, and parse through the mail.Body
with a regex parser, looking for spam words. Then if the mail meets
criteria, delete, archive or flag it.

In a Linux/sendmail spam filter they have it arrive on sendmail, then
use a parser called procmail and pass the mail through it to filter and
then forward based on spam rules.

 

[Beholder]

Why don't you use an Outlook Interop, and parse through the mail.Body
with a regex parser, looking for spam words. Then if the mail meets
criteria, delete, archive or flag it.

In a Linux/sendmail spam filter they have it arrive on sendmail, then
use a parser called procmail and pass the mail through it to filter and
then forward based on spam rules.
.

The reason is that I want the spam filter to work with any
POP3 mail agent, not just Outlook.

 

[802.16a]

The reason is that I want the spam filter to work with any
POP3 mail agent, not just Outlook.

I see -- so is the inbound mail stored in a sendmail queue then?