Active Spam Killer (ASK) protects your email account against spam by confirming
the sender's email address before actual delivery takes place. The confirmation
happens by means of a "confirmation message" that is automatically sent to all
"unknown" users.
This package is an implementation of BATV (Bounce Address Tag Validation),
a draft proposal for detecting and messages making fraudulent use of a sender
address. The filter is written as a plugin to Sendmail or other filters using
the milter API.
The dovecot antispam plugin watches a defined spam folder (defaults to
"SPAM"). Instead of moving mail into special folders or forwarding
them to special mail addresses for retraining, the plugin offers two
actions for the user:
1. moving mail out of the SPAM folder and
2. moving mail into the SPAM folder.
The dovecot plugin watches these actions (and additionally prohibits
APPENDs to the SPAM folder, more for technical reasons than others)
and tells the spam classifier that it made an error and needs to
re-clas- sify the message (as spam/not spam depending on which way it
was moved.)
GBuffy will poll multiple mailboxes for new mail. It will list the
number of new messages in each mailbox you configure. It will also
highlight the mailboxes which have new mail. Pressing the left mouse
button on a mailbox with new mail will display the Sender and Subject
of each new message. Additionally, GBuffy will display the X-Face
header for messages which have them. Pressing the middle mouse button
on a mailbox will launch the configured command, generally a command
to read the mailbox with your favorite mailreader. Pressing the right
mouse button will bring up the configure menu.
GBuffy is currently capable of watching MBOX, MMDF, Maildir and MH
Folders. This version also supports IMAP4rev1 and NNTP with XOVER.
Support for an external program for notification is planned.
GKrellM mailwatch plugin
A plugin for gkrellm, that watches in multiple mailboxes for new mail.
The POP3 extension makes it possible for a PHP
script to connect to and interact with a POP3 mail server.
It is based on the PHP streams interface and requires no
external library.
Greylite is a SPAM filter with exceptional effectiveness and without false
positives. It combines natively with qmail and works as a proxy for any SMTP
server.
It implements a modified greylisting algorithm that improves the filtering
effectiveness and minimizes the delay drawbacks associated with the standard
greylisting algorithm.
It can be tuned to recognize suspicious clients and reject their attempts
multiple times, reaching filtering rates of over 99% without false positives.
Greylite is easy to setup and maintain, and it is small and fast.
Perdition is a mail retrieval proxy that allows users to connect to a
content-free POP3 or IMAP4 server that will redirect them to their real
POP3 or IMAP4 server. This enables mail retrieval for a domain to be
split across multiple backend servers on a per user basis. It can also
be used as a POP3 or IMAP4 proxy in firewall applications.
Perdition supports arbitrary library based map access to determine the
server for each user - POSIX regex, GDBM, PostgreSQL, MySQL, NIS and
OpenLDAP libraries ship with the distribution.
The use of perditon to scale mail services beyond a single box is discussed
in a paper the author wrote on high capacity email, so be sure to check the
web page.
Heirloom mailx (formerly known as "nail") is derived from Berkeley
Mail and provides the functionality of the System V and POSIX mailx
commands. Additional features include support for MIME, IMAP
(including caching and disconnected use), POP3, SMTP, S/MIME,
international character sets, maildir folders, message threading,
powerful search methods, scoring, and a Bayesian junk mail filter.
Mailx can be used as a mail batch language in nearly the same way as
it is used interactively. It can thus act as a mailbox filter, can
fetch mail from remote accounts, and can send files as attachments.
Mailparse is an extension for parsing and working with email messages.
It can deal with rfc822 and rfc2045 (MIME) compliant messages.
Mailparse is stream based, which means that it does not keep in-memory
copies of the files it processes - so it is very resource efficient
when dealing with large messages.