On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:02:11 -0930, Kevin JCJD Symons wrote:

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> One facility that I would like incorporated into Arachne is something
> like http://www.mail2web.com/ where one can "see" the waiting mail
> [whether it be one your current ISP or at another address] and then
> choose to delete it BEFORE downloading it to reply. I have had several
> 300Mb messages sent to me, and with limited space and a slow modem I
> have had to shell and delete some programs to make space to download
> this mail, only to delete it instantly.

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A good way to "see" the waiting mail before downloading it to reply
or even to read it is to access your inbox first by running PINE
from a remote server.  Just look at the headers and mark all of your
obvious spams and viruses for deletion, expunge them from your inbox,
and then close PINE and your connection to the remote server.  Then
start up Arachne and download the legitimate emails that are remaining
in your inbox.  I do this all the time and I do all these things during
the same internet session and over the same TCP/IP connection.  This
procedure is very fast and efficient and it allows you to mark and
expunge all your spams and viruses from your inbox in just one fell
swoop.  Oh, BTW, I have learned that an item of email that you should
always mark as a virus and not even download and open and read is any
message having a header saying that it is from Micro$oft.

Sam Heywood
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