[ale] deleting email before downloading (pop3)

[Steven A. DuChene]

Nope, fetchmail will not actually let you dod the sort of thing Preston is requesting.
I do this all the time with my mindspring accounts. I use either the webmail interface
to view/delete/etc prior to pulling "good" mail down with fetchmail or this is also a
program called prepop that should satisfy Preston's needs.

The advantage to using the mindspring webmail interface is that you can actually use
it to report spam as well as setup blocked sender/domain lists that you cannot do from
prepop or fetchmail.
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Steven A. DuChene

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net>
Sent: Aug 9, 2004 12:19 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] deleting email before downloading (pop3)

Preston Boyington wrote:
> is there a program that i can use to delete mail from pop3 boxes (from mindspring dial-up)?
> 
> i found "pop3browser" and a couple of others, but haven't been able to get it to work properly.
> 
> the machine that i want to do this with is running Debian Woody.
> 
> anyone use something like this and can give a bit of help?

fetchmail

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Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995