Mailwasher Pro and Hot-Key Scripting Concerns

[raffy]

From Michael Talley's post at puppylinux.org/home:

> Our challenges, to which we hope you can solve or at
> least point out efficient solutions:
> (1) Mailwasher Pro is essential & we find 7 or 8
> Linux flavors to download, but Puppy won't play.
> The deb or rpm "unzipper" that Puppy unzip refers us
> to appears to be non-existent.
> No Google search & no Puppy links simplify or help
> in the slightest.
>
> We must be able to see & delete spam from the server
> in a simple manner.
> For the moment, we're dead in the water at this
> point, but there are just 2 more hurdles.
>
> (2) Hot-Key scripting is essential, & the
> open-source Auto Hot Key on Windows is a jewel.
> Will Puppy play, or, is there an alternative?

[The Major]

As an experiment, I downloaded the Linux version of Mailwasher (the Sarge version) and then used MU's debian installer. You have to load a few deb files for the missing dependencies (again using the debian installer), and then it works.

It's not as pretty as the Windows version, and it looks like it might be an earlier version but it's very effective. I've been suffering from a lot of spam recently, so it is very useful to have something operating at the server level, and only downloading clean emails.

Here's a screenshot - the last two emails in the list are junk. My friends are shown with a green tick against them. The pane on the right shows the email details of your friends (I've obscured these). I'm running the 30 day free trial at present.

Ian