Hello Shantanu, S> Ok I guess I cannot delete mails directly from server w/o downloading S> them.
While this isn`t perhaps the solution you were looking for, you may find Mailwasher to be of use. It has some great filtering options, and if you can live with the occasional bug in the old betas, I have them available for download. They have no account limit, unlike the more established commercial demo, but they are quite old now... There are only a couple of bugs that spring to mind, and one of them is quite easily avoided (you simply clear the display before re-checking for new mail). The other bug (IIRC) can manifest itself when you have quite a lot of mail to check (ie. 500+) where it can crash almost randomly but in a system friendly way (ctrl-alt-del then re-run the program). This can be avoided by downloading and wiping the spam in batches of, say, 400 at a time by pressing a big friendly "stop" button :-p Mailwasher will download the email headers and a variable number of lines of an email to enable you to preview the content, apply any filters you have set up to mark items for deletion / blacklisted, and delete anything you don't want from the server direct. It will then load your regular email program to fetch the mail as normal, once the clutter has been removed. They're available at www.phoenixbbs.co.uk along with my full blacklist and some rather useful pre-configured filters. The blacklist consists of several bulk spam hosts, and a lot of country codes ie. .biz .tw My filters are for a later version of Mailwasher, but should (I hope) be backwards compatible with earlier versions. My filters aren't quite as effective nowadays due to new avoidance techniques used by spammers, but I was managing a ~97% success rate at one point for auto-markup, getting 550-600 emails per day. -- Best regards, Colin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________ http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
