On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 21:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sure, if I delete the spam, the spam will be deleted. > > But having to delete the spam *is* the problem, not the solution. The > problem is, you go to bed, and in the morning there are 250 154K > messages that have to be downloaded, seeked and erased, or worse, seeked > and erased with a not-too-fast webmail interface. > > You can dump a free Yahoo mail account easily, but if it is your ISP > email account that is bombed, it is a lot worse.
Sounds like you have a POP account? I had to go the webmail route a couple of times when Kmail showed there was >> 2MB of mail in my account. A pox on ISP site authors who design over-fancy slow-loading Webmail screens :( But anyway, now I've found a rather primitive but effective little utility called pop3browser that I can recommend. Runs in a terminal window, downloads a list of message sizes, allows me to select which ones to delete (and the ones > 100K stick out a mile in the list). I assume nobody's sending me legitimate messages > 100K anyway. But be *very* careful only to mark the messages you want deleted, you get no second chance if you delete the wrong one. There's a similar utility called popcheck that was recommended to me, but it stalled halfway through the list of messages the first time I used it. Might be worth another try. I only bother with pop3browser if Kmail shows me (when it starts) that there's > 1MB of mail in the box. But it sure beats the heck out of webmail! cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
