Re: MS mail bombs
At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:18:20 -0700,
Carla Schroder wrote:
>
> On Saturday 20 September 2003 2:27 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > 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?
>
> Yes, and I'm pretty sure Evolution, Outlook, eudora, and other
> major mail clients can do it too. I love Kmail, it's extremely
> configurable and reliable.
I was subscribed[1] to the KMail ML when this feature was being
discussed (something like a year or two ago). So I suspect that
not all mail clients would have it. Or else the discussion would
have been a no-brainer. Everybody's doing it; let's do it to.
This "delete-before-download" feature can be done by other, stand
alone applications applications: popsneaker, popcheck, pop
surgeon, pop browser, Save My Modem. mail filter, and for those
with the fortitude, telnet.
[1] Apparently by mistake. It was a developers' list. I had
switched to another mail client before they got to implement the
feature.
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