On Wed, 28 May 2003 12:10:59 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2003 15:13:30 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
<snip> > Someone (now who was it? d***ed if I can remember) told me that he > downloads the headers only, selects which messages he wants then > downloads just those, while deleting everything from the mail server. > I can't even remember what software he is using. Just thought I'd > mention it. > But I find Arachne's system of letting me browse the index of the inbox > is satisfactory for me. The way I do it is by connecting to a remote shell account and then running PINE. PINE accesses the mail server and downloads all the message headers being the "date", "from", and "subject" all being displayed on just one line for each message. Then, by judging from the headers, I mark all the obvious spams and viruses for deletion. I don't even have to open and read a message to mark it for deletion. Next I press a key to delete from the server "en masse" all the messages marked for deletion. Then I exit PINE and I close my connection to the remote shell. Then I start Arachne. Using Arachne I download all the remaining messages from the mail server. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
