On Tuesday 18 October 2005 19:57, Rony Bill wrote:
sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
One issue will be blocking spam at the mtnl server. Downloading and filtering is pointless.
Could you expand on this?
Once u download mail u have consumed some of your quota and payed for it. Filtering after that only saves u the hassle of reading / deleting the junk from your box.
What is the spam?
http://www.spamhaus.org/definition.html
Which email account will it affect?
Yours. Amongst others. But u would be concerned about your bills i suppose.
Are you refering to unwanted attempts by outsiders to attack the system or get in? :)
No. That is cracking (hacking to some in an alternate universe on the wrong M$edication)
rgds jtd
sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
One issue will be blocking spam at the mtnl server. Downloading and filtering is pointless.
Could you expand on this?
Once u download mail u have consumed some of your quota and payed for it. Filtering after that only saves u the hassle of reading / deleting the junk from your box.
Very true, but why and how do you block spam on the mtnl server as you had mentioned, since your existing email addresses are not mtnl's and it won't suddenly change to mtnl? Your mails are on thrid party email servers.
In windows I have a very simple yet handy light email client called popcorn and that downloads headers only and can delete mails from the server itself. I wonder if its equivalent type is available for linux.
Regards,
Rony.
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Rony Bill wrote:
In windows I have a very simple yet handy light email client called popcorn and that downloads headers only and can delete mails from the server itself. I wonder if its equivalent type is available for linux.
eremove. Only to check headers and remove unwanted mails. Not a full email client. I guess if one knows some pop3 basics, it wouldn't be difficult to write a simple to tool to check headers/size of mail and delete them on the server itself.
Rajen.
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Rajen M. Parekh wrote:
eremove. Only to check headers and remove unwanted mails. Not a full email client.
Thanks a lot. :) I have installed it and it does its job fine. Best part, it works in GUI. For those who are interested, simply download this file and uncompress it. From the folder created, simply double click the eremove executable file.
http://optusnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/eremove/eremove-bin-1.4.tar.g...
Regards,
Rony.
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