[H-GEN] How do I bounce spam?

Bob,

> I am running Mandrake 8.1 and I normally use Kmail for my e-mail client.
> After receiving some spam the other day with a 900+ kb attachment I noticed 
> that KMail has a bounce facility so I did just that succesfully.

That "bounce" is probably more accurately called "re-send".  You
may have done something that you did not expect...

> My question is is this, is there some way that I can download the headers 
> together with information showing the total message size etc, and then bounce 
> selected messages from the server without the 2 way transfer I had to do 
> above.
> Failing that is there a way to delete this rubbish on the server without the 
> download step.
> I'm not really interested in spam filters at my end, it's the actual download 
> I want to avoid.

This sounds like you are using POP3.  This protocol is flexible
enough for you to delete these emails without downloading them;
however, offhand I don't know of any tools to do this under
GNU/Linux.

A quick "apt-cache search POP3" on my Debian host finds a small
utility called "popcheck" that seems to be what you want:

    http://www.algonet.se/~staham/linux/programs.html

Yours sincerely,

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