Swen forced me to change email address

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Gabriele Neukam

It filled my inbox by the hundreds, and My box has a maximum of only 5
MB. People with mailboxes of 100 MB still found it full. The only way to
avoid it, is to add something like "spam" or "delete" to the address. So
I did it (see signature).

Sigh. NO virus before had managed that. But this is *too* much.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
I am having great difficulty reading legitimate emails I have got message
from ntl admin that my email inbox is full (M$ spam/criticalupdate/patches)
99% of the emails I am sure will be this junk.

HTH can I get my normal email without having to download this 150k+
virus/worm emails on dialup very time consuming/annonying.

Guess I need to make new email account yes?
 
I am having great difficulty reading legitimate emails I have got message
from ntl admin that my email inbox is full (M$ spam/criticalupdate/patches)
99% of the emails I am sure will be this junk.

HTH can I get my normal email without having to download this 150k+
virus/worm emails on dialup very time consuming/annonying.

Guess I need to make new email account yes?
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Delete the junk while it's still on the server. You can do this using
an application like POP3 Scan Mailbox if your ISP has a POP3 server.
http://www.kempston.demon.co.uk/smb/


Steve
 
Gabriele said:
It filled my inbox by the hundreds, and My box has a maximum of only 5
MB. People with mailboxes of 100 MB still found it full. The only way to
avoid it, is to add something like "spam" or "delete" to the address. So
I did it (see signature).

Sigh. NO virus before had managed that. But this is *too* much.
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no virus will ever manage that with me... i've seen generations of
forum participants come and go like the ebb and flow of the tide...
i've seen entire forums fade away like dying stars... i've outlasted
the most pernicious trolls and the most intractable clowns, and i will
outlast this worm...

of course it helps that i have very little use for email...
 
You could use Mailwasher as long as you don't use the phoney "bounce"
feature which simply bounces it back to your ISP and adds to the general
problems caused by spam.
 
On that special day, h2so4, ([email protected]) said...
You could use Mailwasher as long as you don't use the phoney "bounce"
feature which simply bounces it back to your ISP and adds to the general
problems caused by spam.
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Mailwasher (or Mailfilter or Magic Mail Monitor) is neat, but only if it
does the job once and for all. but if you delete 35 mails, only to find
another 35 in the same box only ten minutes later (because they had been
lingering in the server queue), it is way too much. I can't stay up all
night and empty the mailbox after every 30 minutes.

Some calculated: "I've got a 100 MB mailbox, that means, after 7 hours
it will be full (with > 500 Swen). And there have been several that
received more than 1000 in the first day.

Imagine removing 1000 with mailwasher. Not only the easily recognizable
ones with sizes > 130 kb, but also the failed ones which don't have an
attachment, or the attachment had been removed by a well meaning mail
server. The fake bounces aren't that easy to spot by regexp methods,
without creating false positives. So the rest has to be done by hand.
The rest of 1000 mails.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
Imagine removing 1000 with mailwasher. Not only the easily recognizable
ones with sizes > 130 kb, but also the failed ones which don't have an
attachment, or the attachment had been removed by a well meaning mail
server. The fake bounces aren't that easy to spot by regexp methods,
without creating false positives. So the rest has to be done by hand.
The rest of 1000 mails.
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The combination I use is Agent and POP3 Scan Mailbox.

First I let Agent kill the messages that I don't want like anything
that is not addressed to me or list I subscribe to, html and few
keywords that gets most of the other junk. It is also set to leave big
messages on the server. My "big" is more than 20K because I'm not into
binaries.

Then I use POP3 Scan Mailbox to delete everything else left on the
server.

The whole process only takes about five minutes to handle a 1000
messages.


Steve
 
Delete the junk while it's still on the server. You can do this using
an application like POP3 Scan Mailbox if your ISP has a POP3 server.
http://www.kempston.demon.co.uk/smb/

Steve
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You don't need to buy a program or install a huge program to
perform this function.

FREE POP3 Scan Mailbox is excellent and so is:

FREE Magic Mail Monitor. Deletes 100 msgs/atchs from server in seconds.
http://www.geeba.org/magic/

BoB
For the duration, my address is fake.
 
You don't need to buy a program or install a huge program to
perform this function.

FREE POP3 Scan Mailbox is excellent and so is:
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But that's exactly what I was recommending. I also gave the web
location for it. You obviously didn't read my message.


Steve
 
kurt wismer wrote:
[snip]
no virus will ever manage that with me... i've seen generations of forum
participants come and go like the ebb and flow of the tide... i've seen
entire forums fade away like dying stars... i've outlasted the most
pernicious trolls and the most intractable clowns, and i will outlast
this worm...
Click to expand...

hmm... melodrama... remind me to read aca-v *before* passages from the
iliad next time...
 
But that's exactly what I was recommending. I also gave the web
location for it. You obviously didn't read my message.
Steve
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Of course I did. I wanted to support your excellent suggestion,
'and' mention another possibility, MMM. Alternatives are always
nice to have.

BoB
For the duration, my address is fake.
 
I give up. It's been a week now and still the shit comes. I've told everybody to stop using the
poor, beleaguered address.
 
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