Re: MS mail bombs

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:14:27 -0400, 
Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> wrote in message 
<[🔎] 20030924021427.GA4591@server.crasseux.com>:

> On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:52:20AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:02:20 -0400, 
> > Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> wrote in message 
> > <[🔎] 20030923220220.GA3346@server.crasseux.com>:
> > > For telnet simply run:
> > > telnet pop.server.com 110
> > > USER username
> > > PASS password
> > > LIST
> > > TOP number (to show only the headers)
> > > DELE number (to delete the message)
> > > QUIT (once you're done)
> > 
> > ..cool, anyone scripted this?   
> 
> Well mailfilter basically does this. You just define some rules that
> it should apply to messages based only on the headers (it only
> downloads the headers). It's kind of like procmail for pop, but only
> using the headers.
> 
> I haven't really used it because I don't feel comfortable deleting
> mail without either, moving it to a trash folder, or without looking
> at it manually.
> 
> apt-cache show mailfilter should describe it pretty well.

..thanks, I'll try it.

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