I've been helping my father in-law set up his email. According to Cox Communications tech support, they do not support IMAP. This is weird thing number one. So, I set up Purify to forward all Cox Communications email to an account that I set up on my server that does support IMAP. Purify starts doing it's thing, but has a hard time digesting the POP email coming in from Cox. Turns out that they are sending the "." that terminates a message as a separate packet. Ok, I can fix this, I add some code to Purify that insists on getting this packet. This works, but, I can't connect to the forward server on port 25. Apparently, Cox has this closed in Northern Virginia. So I set the forward up on port 26 (purify.cc can accept mail on this port).

So, I'm probably going to add this feature in the next release of Purify (one is already in the new version 2.2.1 soon to be released).
-- POP protocol support to look for the "lone packet" to terminate a POP message.

It'll be a few weeks before all of this happens, with my iPhone app work, and Thanksgiving, blah blah ...

Speaking of Cox, maybe you can convince them to allow Purify to report spam

In some cases I still get "Error Reporting (MESSAGE NAME), error = GetResponse(), error 552 5.2.0 98bv1d00720psfc048bvC0 This message was undeliverable. This message has been found to be a potential spam message, and has therefore been blocked. Please visit http://coxagainstspam.cox.net for more information."

I explained that I was not sending spam, but reporting spam. Never heard back from Cox.
Interestingly, these incoming spam messages are NOT filtered by Cox no matter how many times I classify them as spam.

Return-Path: <victorcpiusvy@yahoo.com>
Received: from fed1rmimpi02.cox.net ([70.169.32.69])
by fed1rmmtai114.cox.net
(InterMail vM.8.00.01.00 201-2244-105-20090324) with ESMTP
id <20091124203125.NLEO14906.fed1rmmtai114.cox.net@fed1rmimpi02.cox.net>
for <*******@cox.net>; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:31:25 -0500
Received: from yahoo.com ([190.108.17.206])
by fed1rmimpi02.cox.net with IMP
id 98XJ1d03D4SlmnS058XLR7; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:31:24 -0500
X-VR-Score: 139.00
X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1
X-CM-Score: 0.00
Message-ID: <1C8F4F85.C2838449@yahoo.com>
From: rachel pugh <victorcpiusvy@yahoo.com>
To: *******@cox.net
Subject: Viagra on Sale today
Content-Type: text/plain
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:31:25 -0500

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X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 252851-2, 11/24/2009), Outbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean

Too funny! You'd think they'd have figured out that email to their abuse desk would by spammy.