Re: terminate unwanted bug mail how?
On Tue 01 Nov 2016 at 11:52:50 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 November 2016 05:45:39 Brian wrote:
>
> > On Mon 31 Oct 2016 at 21:08:08 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> > > Brian composed on 2016-10-31 22:27 (UTC):
> > > >But we are still in the dark. And it does not appear you have
> > > >investigated what mailfilter can do if your bandwidth is contrained
> > >
> > > Another mistake. I supposed you meant mail filter rather than an app
> > > named [M]ailfilter. Now that I'm apprised of mailfilter I will need
> > > to investigate, once I've encountered of an available round tuit. It
> > > sounds like something overdue for many moons.
> >
> > mailfilter deletes mail on the server. One criterion is size, which
> > can be set to a threshhold.
>
> No, it doesn't IF your server is shentel.net. When I called to complain,
> they explained that many people use pop3, but expected the message to
> still be there when accessed by imap. So I am forced to login to their
> webmail server, and delete old mail that way. Which I am now doing
> nominally daily.
That is partly why I invited the OP to say a little something about how
he got mail.
> I am all automated pop3 here. But I will say their spam trapping is much
> better than the average. So much so that I have discontinued using
> mailfilter.
IPS's filtering can go awry. I prefer to make my own mistakes. The
person responsible is close at hand and can be re-educated.
--
Brian.
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