Chapter 10. POP Goes the E-Mail
My introduction to network scripting came in September 2003, when the SWEN virus started flooding mailboxes with large files purporting to be a "Cumulative Patch" for Windows operating systems. Frequent posters to Usenet newsgroups were receiving thousands of these 150-kilobyte messages every day. As I am a frequent poster, I needed a utility to filter those messages at the source: a POP3 server at my Internet provider.
None of the filters available at the time did an adequate job, so I learned how to do it with shell scripts from Ken Burtch's book Linux Shell Scripting with Bash (Sams, 2004). The book doesn't mention POP3, but the technique of connecting to a network socket is the same for all protocols: bash treats ...
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