Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 14, 2003 09:23 PM
Everyone keeps raging on about various Spam Filters but I find that they do not stop you from downloading the Spam (which is what I want) by deleting known Spam off your POP or IMAP mail server. The fact that you have to actually download "all" the email first before it can filter it is rather self defeating. Sure you might not see it, but it using up bandwith + time just downloading it, just so a filter can put it in another directory on your hard drive.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-(
I feel that this feature could be built into many Email clients (with you having the option wether to us it or not) as at present I use kshowmail (at sourceforge.net) under Linux and eremove (at tucows.com) under Windows to do just that job (delete unwanted mail from my ISP's POP mail server). And there are quite a few other programs for both Linux and windows that can delete unwanted junk or spam off your POP server. They have been around for many years, so it is not as if I am proposing something new !!!
So why can not all those Email Clients (like Mozilla-Mail) incorporate this feature as well ?
Untill some one gets wise (the writers of Mozilla) I will continue to use Email-removers (off POP server) befor I ever get my mail. BTW many Email-removers have the option to open your Email Client after you have deleted the Spam/Junk, so why bother with Filtering that forces you to download all that Spam/Junk first ?
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 14, 2003 09:23 PMI feel that this feature could be built into many Email clients (with you having the option wether to us it or not) as at present I use kshowmail (at sourceforge.net) under Linux and eremove (at tucows.com) under Windows to do just that job (delete unwanted mail from my ISP's POP mail server). And there are quite a few other programs for both Linux and windows that can delete unwanted junk or spam off your POP server. They have been around for many years, so it is not as if I am proposing something new !!!
So why can not all those Email Clients (like Mozilla-Mail) incorporate this feature as well ?
Untill some one gets wise (the writers of Mozilla) I will continue to use Email-removers (off POP server) befor I ever get my mail. BTW many Email-removers have the option to open your Email Client after you have deleted the Spam/Junk, so why bother with Filtering that forces you to download all that Spam/Junk first ?
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