Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 04:37, Andre Kalus wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 23:33:30 +0100, Pigeon wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:28:26PM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> >> On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 02:39:43AM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
> >> > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:14:38AM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> >> > > It is beyond my capability (but only slightly, I feel, and it should
> >> > > be very easy for lots of people here) to produce a sort of
> >> > > interactive fetchmail that reads the headers of each message on the
> >> > > server, presents them to you and asks if you want to fetch the
> >> > > message or delete it. This is what I would like to have.
> >> >
> >> > ...like pop3browser?
> >>
> >> That looks useful - when I can get it working :( - and decently small.
> >
> > ...it's dead easy; what problem are you having?
>
> It is very simple - you do not need any config. I just installed mutt
> (from unstable). Then I call:
>
> mutt -f pop://xxxxxxx@pop.gmx.net
>
> where xxxxxxx is my customer number from GMX (you can use both e-Mail
> address and customer number as login but I guess E-mail won't work because
> it has an @ inside). pop.gmx.net is your providers pop server.
>
> Then you are asked for your password and see the contents of your mailbox.
> Use arrow keys to move up and down, press D to delete a message. Q exits
> mutt, it asks you to delete the marked ("D") messages. Just press enter
> and you are done.
>
> I do have a dial-up connection too, so this is my way to get rid of SWEN...
For a high-volume account, this seems *so* tedious. fetchmail,
exim|postfix, SpamAssassin, and any one of the automated swen
zappers is much more efficient.
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