Email filters in python

[sf]

Would someome like to post their email filters code. Its so common that
probably some standard library
supports it or many would have written it already. If I have basic
structure, I can take from there.

( Essentially I want get rid of XP by getting rid of powerful mail client
"TheBat!" )

............... ............
- open POP-SSL connection to pop.someserver. com
- Get all mails and store as Unix mail file (mymails)
- do not delete mails from server
- close connection.
............... ............
- open mymails file

- Do following for each mail in mymails file (one by one)
{
- get header fields: {FROM, TO, CC, Subject,... more ... }
- some conditons (FROM is found my addresslist.txt but not part of
my rejectlist.txt )
append that mail to some existing file.
}


............... ............
- open SMTP-TLS connection to smtp.someserver .com
- send all mails in my unix mail file
- close connection
............... ............


Thanks.

[Simon Brunning]

Re: Email filters in python

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:07:26 GMT, sf <sf@sf.sf> wrote:[color=blue]
> Would someome like to post their email filters code. Its so common that
> probably some standard library
> supports it or many would have written it already. If I have basic
> structure, I can take from there.[/color]

http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

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[Diez B. Roggisch]

Re: Email filters in python

> ............... ...........[color=blue]
> - open POP-SSL connection to pop.someserver. com
> - Get all mails and store as Unix mail file (mymails)
> - do not delete mails from server
> - close connection.
> ............... ...........
> - open mymails file
>
> - Do following for each mail in mymails file (one by one)
> {
> - get header fields: {FROM, TO, CC, Subject,... more ... }
> - some conditons (FROM is found my addresslist.txt but not part of
> my rejectlist.txt )
> append that mail to some existing file.
> }[/color]

For these two, use fetchmail and procmail.[color=blue]
> ............... ...........
> - open SMTP-TLS connection to smtp.someserver .com
> - send all mails in my unix mail file
> - close connection[/color]

I'm not totally sure how to do this best - but here python might indeed
help, using smtplib and mailbox.

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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch

[Christopher De Vries]

Re: Email filters in python

I use fetchmail in daemon mode and have procmail set up to filter my
email through bogofilter (http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/). As for
outgoing mail postfix, exim, and sendmail are popular. From my laptop I
do use a python script to cache mail my mail when I'm not connected. I
then use a script which sends my email over ssh to my work computer
which uses sendmail to send it all out. I discuss those scripts at

http://miyu.idolstarastronomer.com:8080/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/devries/blosxom.cgi/2004/04/27#laptop-mail

and they are written in python.

[Thomas Guettler]

Re: Email filters in python

Am Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:07:26 +0000 schrieb sf:
[color=blue]
> Would someome like to post their email filters code. Its so common that
> probably some standard library
> supports it or many would have written it already.[/color]

Look for "getmail". This is a small python script which
is an alternative for fetchmail.

Thomas


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