[H-GEN] How do I bounce spam?

[bob parker]

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On Saturday 27 April 2002 21:37, you wrote:
Thanks Mark,
I've downloaded that and also the spam filter offerred there. If I understand 
it correctly it filters at the server end
Bob Parker

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> 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,
>
> -- Mark John Suter  | I know that you  believe  you understand
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