Say hi to your friend Google: A simple search [1] returns some nice options, e.g. [2]. Kind regards, Auke 1. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=pop3+delete+server 2. http://web.tiscali.it/marco_web/popfilter.html On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 13:35, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > Earl F Hampton wrote: > > >>i read up the documentation. from what i understand, it can not. dont > >>you think downloading headers alone first, deleting unwanted ones off > >>the server itself and finally downloading the required ones is a more > >>efficient way (in terms of internet bandwidth)? is there any way of > >>achieving it? > >> > > > >I saw your msg about the checking out the headers before getting the body so > >I wrote a small perl script to down the headers. You can play with it if you > >like. For me it didn't help any because most of the mail I get is just text. > >The time spent opening the socket twice was longer than it took to just down > >the body to start with. Maybe if your spam to mail ratio is higher than mine > >it would help you more. > > > >http://hamiii.sytes.net/Scripts/Perl/index.phtml?page=popcheck.pl.html > > > > > thanx for your help. i checked the script and although i do not know > perl much, it was kind of easy to follow. > > but i think i miscommunicated what i want to do earlier. here is what i > will like to to: > > - download all the headers in the pop account > - mark unwanted headers for deletion > - delete these off the pop server (without downloading) > - now, the pop server has messages that i really want > - download these messages > > anything in linux world that can do this? > > - sandip > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- PGP: 0x4A34DD6D, http://bunny.sourceforge.net/
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