Re: Deleting mail without downloading

[Alexander Wasmuth <awasmuth@gmx.net>]

csj schrieb:

> > mailfilter
> > popsneaker <http://www.ixtools.de/popsneaker/>
> 
> Okay, seems there's a debian way. But how painful is setting up
> mailfilter? Will it work transparently with my X-based mailer,
> intercepting before the offending mail gets to download? The apt-cache
> info for the package shows just "generic" dependencies on libc6,
> libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 and debconf. Are there any hidden packages I must
> configure?

I used popsneaker a time ago, it works best in connection with the
fetchmail 'preconnect' setting.

Another way is to use it with cron to periodically check (and clean)
your POP3-account, but that's not very comfortable.


Alex