On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 11:19, Carla Schroder wrote: > On Friday 19 September 2003 11:58 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:22, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:08:42 -0600 > > > > > > "Walt L. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails > > > > that look like there from M$? The rate at which their coming > > > > is increasing exponentially. > > > > > > My solution has been exim4, exiscan-acl, clamav, spamassassin and > > > liberal use of shorewall's blacklist. > > > > Does that prevent the emails from being downloaded from the ISP's > > pop3 server in the 1st place? > > > > -- > > No, this kind of setup is for someone running their own mailserver. There are > two ways to process mail at the server on your ISP account. One is using > Webmail, if they offer it. Log in and delete the crap out of it. :) > > The other way is a neat little trick I use on my ISP account- limit the size > of messages to download, I limit them to 2000 bytes. You can try different > sizes to see what works. Then when I check mail a popup window appears > showing a list of messages, with subject lines and the senders of any > messages bigger than 2000 bytes. Then I can either leave them on the server, > delete them, or download them. I don't know if all mail clients do this, it's > worth checking out.
Well that's sweet. I see that you use KMail. Is it KMail that gives you this capability? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA The purpose of the military isn't to pay your college tuition or give you a little extra income; it's to "kill people and break things". Surprisingly, not everyone understands that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
