Re: MS mail bombs
On Monday 22 September 2003 07:26, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani (bijan@psq.com)
wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:19:32AM -0700, Carla Schroder 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.
> >
> > I use a different trick when I'm on dialup and don't want to download
> > huge messages. I simply use mutt to access my pop mailbox. Then mutt
> > only downloads the headers from the pop server. And then I get a list
> > of all the messages, who they're from, what the subject is and what
> > the size is. I can then delete whichever ones I don't want to
> > download. After that's done I use fetchmail to retrieve the mail as I
> > normally would.
>
> The problem at current rates of Swen delivery is that I'd have to check
> my mail 10-20 times or more daily to avoid mail-over-quota bounces.
>
> If Swen is the shape of things to come, it's the end of dial-up POP3
> mail accounts.
I still think imap is a better alternative fro POP (especially if you tend to
loose locally store mails and if the ISP is capable of doing some good
filtering/antivirusscanning there is no problem at all.
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