Hi folks, after a long time only lurking around here and fiddling with my router I think I'll be mere active here. Until Glen has build the "retrieve header" functionalty into arachne here is a possibility to use telnet to have a look at the mail headers:
Open a telnet session and connect to Your ISP's pop3 server i.e. telnet pop3.web.de 110 When prompted enter: user Your_username pass Your_password list ;get a list of all messages in mailbox and there size top msg 0 ;this will retrieve only the header of message msg, replace 0 with an other number to see some lines of the message dele msg ;if You want to delete message msg quit ;when finished to log out the pop3 server This will delete all unwanted messages and keep the others on the server to d/l them with Your favorite eMail prog. HTH Regards Joerg On Wed, 28 May 2003 03:28:01 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > On Wed, 28 May 2003 18:00:05 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> On Tue, 27 May 2003 04:26:35 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >>> 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> >> FYI, >> I know how to add this little 'feature' to Arachne ;-) >> Anyone interested ??? <g g g> > The advantage of having a feature to grab headers only is that we > would not have to suffer such a waste of time while waiting for > very large spams and viruses to download. I sometimes get spams > as big as 290 kilobytes! It sure would be nice if we could just > simply mark and delete "en masse" all of the most obvious spams > and viruses on the server without having to open them and look at > them and to waste our time downloading them. PINE does this very > nicely. It sure would be nice to have such an excellent feature > in Arachne. > Sam Heywood > -- > This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: > http://browser.arachne.cz/ -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
