OK, so I'm replying to a message almost three weeks old...
Quoth Avraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, May 20, 2004:
> I am about to cease receiving the mail at the institute and receive it,
> instead at home.
> The problem is that the account at bezeqint is also used by my wife, on a
> windows machine.
The best solution would be, of course, to use another e-mail
address. And where will you receive your personal mail?
> I can arrange so that she won't read her mail until I downloaded mine
> (despite using different OSs, we are still on speaking terms) and instruct
> exim to send back to the server any letters that do not come from IGLU (if
> I understood correctly the documentation, this is doable). I see two
> potential problems on which I would like your advice:
> -The possibility of an infinite loop of messages flowing back and forth
> between my computer and the server. Is this a real danger?
Yes. And remember that a looped mail bounces after 30(?) hops.
> I do not use
> fetchmail in demone mode.
Don't use fetchmail. Last time I checked it could lose mail by
not checking SMTP error codes.
> -All the letters that my wife is going to receive will have my computer as
> sender. Which will oblige her to open them all, including viruses and spam
> letters, in order to read her mail. How can I avoid that ?
Use the original envelope sender, and don't modify the message in
any way.
> I would be gladly her of a different way to proceed. This is just
> the solution that occured to me.
With POP3, you can:
(1) Download headers of all messages;
(2) Then, download and delete messages matching certain
parameters (like having certain headers, etc.).
The implementation is left as an exercise to the reader. I don't
know what software can do it, but such things probably should
exist. Nor do I know much about IMAP, but a similar solution
should be possible with IMAP as well.
Vadik.
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