A month ago, I mentioned my efforts to minimise the seemingly never-ending spam onslaught on my various inboxes. My brief dalliance with Oddpost was shortlived due to the fact that it is reliant on MSIE and I was keen to use GPL/open source apps only if at all possible. I mailed a variety of concerns to the Oddpost team and I received reply with a glimmer of hope for a cross-platform version:
Mozilla support is one of the most common requests we receive, so it is on our developers' "wish list" for possible implementation in a future version of Oddpost, and I will add your vote to the tally. Would you like us to notify you if we do produce a Mozilla-compatible version?
That said, I have now configured POPFile to work alongside Firebird to weed out the c**p from my incoming mail. Whilst it doesn't have the most intuitive of interfaces, POPFile does have good supporting documentation that guides users through setup and usage. The extensive configurability of both POPFile and Firebird's message filters means that each user can, with a little thought, time and effort, have their 'ideal' setup in place, filtering the mail they want from the mail they didn't ask for.