On Wednesday 19 Nov 2003 07:24, James Myles wrote: > Phil Deane wrote: > > Hi Folks > > > > It has been over 2 months now since this bloody virus starting sending > > emails to people, and I am still getting up to 100 a day. I know this > > because I installed spamassassin at the time, which is good at filtering > > out spams.(Over 2000 in 2 months!!!, not including virus!) > > > > But these fecking things are not spams, and are getting through, on a > > dial up modem it kills me to have to download 11Mb of email when I come > > home from work, for maybe 100 real 2 k emails and the rest 154K virus' > > > > It must stop, it is driving me mad. I didn't want to us the likes of > > mailfilter as then I dint get an option of what I delete, it just does > > it, but it might be my only option. > > > > Advice anyone? > > Phil, > > Use IMAP instead of POP. >
I will investigate IMAP, not something I am altogether familiar with. But what benefit would that have to me? I checked and I can use IMAP -- Phil Deane http://www.MiracleExpress.force9.co.uk _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
