On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:34:07PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 04:59:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > | > | On Tuesday 08 January 2002 04:38 pm, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > | > On another ISP I've got a full mailbox (around 120MB and 15000 > | > messages I think) because a spammer has faked a legitimate e-mail > | > address of mine and used it. This means that > | > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (which I had no idea was > | > legitimate) has received many thousands of mail bounces. > | > > | > Is there a package that would allow me to examine JUST THE HEADERS of > | > these mail messages, and allow me to delete chunks at a time? There > | > may be a handful of mails in there that I want, but I don't want to > | > download 120MB to find out! > | > | I'm 99.9% sure you can write something in Python. > > Of course you can! :-). (or just use telnet after reading the POP3 > RFC) > > I think 'popsneaker' is the name of one such program. IIRC there's 2 > programs (at least one of which is on sourceforge) to delete spam on a > POP server after inspecting the headers and before downloading the > body.
There's something called popchecker which I use. http://www.algonet.se/~staham/linux/programs.html Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com Software industry: unique industry where selling substandard goods is legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems.
