Microsoft virus problem - POP3 mailbox
After more than 2 years without any kind of Microsoft products I thought viruses were a problem for others. Unfortunately I'm now being hit by one which is causing real problems. The POP3 mailbox on my ISP is getting 20+ mails a day with a virus attachment (W32/Gibe-F FWIW, though this isn't important) This means a 2-3MB daily download just to then delete the majority of the messages, and as I'm on 56k dialup this is an unwelcome and pointless task. I thought it would be a 1 or 2 day effect, but nearly a week on the flow hasn't let up at all. Does anyone know how to get just the message headers from a POP3 mailbox and then go back separately and delete the unwanted mails without actually downloading them all? Alternatively, I'd settle for a straight deletion of all messages without download if this is an option and I can't browse messages/headers first. I've got mutt, pine,and kmail running, but would go for any suitable MTA/MUA if I can achieve the desired effect. Any ideas/suggestions? Thanks Barrie _________________________________________________________________ Find a cheaper internet access deal - choose one to suit you. http://www.msn.co.uk/internetaccess
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 7:39 pm, barrie james wrote:
After more than 2 years without any kind of Microsoft products I thought viruses were a problem for others. Unfortunately I'm now being hit by one which is causing real problems. The POP3 mailbox on my ISP is getting 20+ mails a day with a virus attachment (W32/Gibe-F FWIW, though this isn't important) This means a 2-3MB daily download just to then delete the majority of the messages, and as I'm on 56k dialup this is an unwelcome and pointless task. I thought it would be a 1 or 2 day effect, but nearly a week on the flow hasn't let up at all. Does anyone know how to get just the message headers from a POP3 mailbox and then go back separately and delete the unwanted mails without actually downloading them all? Alternatively, I'd settle for a straight deletion of all messages without download if this is an option and I can't browse messages/headers first. I've got mutt, pine,and kmail running, but would go for any suitable MTA/MUA if I can achieve the desired effect. Any ideas/suggestions? Thanks
Barrie
I have the same problem and have solved it with kmail. Under settings/Configure kmail select Network then the receiving tab. Select your incoming account and press the Modify button. About two thirds of the way doen the general tab you will find a check box labelled 'Filter messages if they are greater than'. Check this box and set the bytes entry to a suitable value - I use 10K bytes. Click an Apply then cancel. Now when you retrieve mail, any that exceeds the preset amount is listed in a popup box *before* it is downlaoded. In the popup you can for each message either delete (on the server), download now or defer till later. i just click delete on the span and then never get downloaded. Ian
"barrie james" <barriedj@hotmail.com> wrote:
Does anyone know how to get just the message headers from a POP3 mailbox and then go back separately and delete the unwanted mails without actually downloading them all?
popcheck "view and delete messages on a pop3 server" http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/6105/popcheck/ Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
"barrie james" <barriedj@hotmail.com> wrote:
Does anyone know how to get just the message headers from a POP3 mailbox and then go back separately and delete the unwanted mails without actually downloading them all?
popcheck
"view and delete messages on a pop3 server"
That geocities URL I gave in my previous email appears to be the wrong one so I don't have a URL I'm afraid. The Popcheck package is in my Debian package list but I don't know where else you might get it. I couldn't find it on Freshmeat. Sorry! Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
On 2003-12-16 19:39:05 +0000 barrie james <barriedj@hotmail.com> wrote:
Does anyone know how to get just the message headers from a POP3 mailbox and then go back separately and delete the unwanted mails without actually downloading them all?
I'm using a program called popmail to prefilter the mailbox that gets most of the spam. I used a perl script called disspam in the past. If you want to do it interactively, you can use mutt with "mutt -f pop://user@server/" and delete from there. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef@jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/
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