On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 at 08:55:16, Norman Dunbar wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>A project that I have in mind, sorry but it is Windows based, is a small
>email filter type program which allows you to connect to the mail server at
>your ISP, and download the HEADERS of your emails first of all - so any 100
>Gigabyte :o) attachments, or files with double extensions - xxx.xls.exe or
>similar - can be spotted before downloading. Any unwanted emails can then be
>deleted from the server BEFORE you download them.
Demon's Turnpike (generally available for around £30 I think - but free
to Demon customers) already does just this on its POP3 and SMTP mail
collections.
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