OK, so my ISP now filters spam, and the way it does it is it runs all my mail through a filter and if it comes up as spam then it still sends it to me, but with a tag in the subject line that indicates that it is spam. This way, I can easily set a filter to delete it all (actually, the ISP will delete it if I want, but I'd rather still see it so I can make sure it is all spam).

However, I use a mailcheck applet (Inbox Monitor for Gnome), and it doesn't see whether or not the new mail I have is spam, so if I get spam it still shows that I have new mail and I have to open my mail client before it gets deleted.

So, does anyone know of a mailcheck applet that with a bultin user-defined filter? It would be really handy if the applet did this for me. If noone knows of one, I'll probably end up writing one myself (I figure other people might use it too), but if one already exists it'll save me some work.

TIA

Dunno if one exists, but if it does, I'd be interested in it too.

I wrote a little Tcl script tonight that works for me. I'll work some more on it this weekend to get it fit for public consumption.

why not try kmail, i think it has inbuilt filtering options

My mail client has filtering. Almost every mail client released in the last couple years has filtering. I'm talking about an applet that checks mail, NOT a mail client.