filtermail(1)

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 POP3 accounts and is especially useful for dialup connections via modem, ISDN, etc.

filtermail connects to any POP3 mail box and compares part of its content 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.

CONFIGURATION
The behaviour of filtermail is controlled by command-line options and a configuration file. The program will not start without it. Example configurations can be looked up in the filtermailex(5) man page, in the INSTALL document or inside the doc/ directory of the filtermail distribution.

By default filtermail tries to read ~/.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

-v, --verbose=LEVEL
    Specify level of verbosity

-V, --version
    Display version information

SEE ALSO
filtermailrc(5), filtermailex(5), procmail(1), regex(7)

COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2000-2001 Andreas Bauer <baueran@in.tum.de>

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.