From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 03:26:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E501616A4B3 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 03:26:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (bay1-f77.bay1.hotmail.com [65.54.245.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F39D43FE1 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 03:26:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ekremg@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 03:26:30 -0700 Received: from 210.50.98.195 by by1fd.bay1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:26:30 GMT X-Originating-IP: [210.50.98.195] X-Originating-Email: [ekremg@hotmail.com] From: "ekrem _" To: david@landgren.net Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 20:26:30 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Sep 2003 10:26:30.0856 (UTC) FILETIME=[51F22C80:01C38286] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deleting/Filtering mail from POP3 server before its download? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:26:38 -0000 >From: David Landgren >To: ekrem _ >CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Deleting/Filtering mail from POP3 server before its download? >Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:20:13 +0200 > >ekrem _ wrote: >>Hi people, >> >>I'd like to be able to delete my emails from my ISP's POP3 server, >>especially to avoid >>the recent bombardment of the W32.swen.A virus which come with a 150kb+ >>attachment. >>So I'm looking for such a filter or spam detector which will delete from >>spam directly from the POP server. > > >I can't vouch as to whether it works because I don't use POP, but the >following program was posted to Perlmonks yesterday. > > http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=292982 > >David > Thanks David, and to Bart Lateur (the author of the perl script), I'm using the perl script from the above link and it's working fine. It's already saving me download time and bandwidth. Ekrem _________________________________________________________________ Help protect your PC. Get a FREE computer virus scan online from McAfee. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963