On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 1:44 pm, Robin Turner wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 8:58 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > >>Wouldn't that be nice if the POP mail system could do that! In my > >>experience, using Netscape and Mozilla mail, I either download all the > >>messages from the ISP or none. > > > > Are you sure it doesn't? I'm sure I used just that to get rid of spam > > from a certain address, and mine is a pop account. I'm using KMail, and > > I'm sure it was simple to activate there. > > AFAIK, Mozilla does not allow server-side mail filtering - the only > options are to download everything, or only messages under a certain > size (not very useful for spam filtering, since the problem is lot's of > little messages, not one or two big ones). On the positive side, > Mozilla/Netscape allows you the option of leaving messages on the server > but having them deleted there when they are deleted locally - very > useful when you're logging on from different computers. > Ah - that explains it. It's so long since I used Mozilla mail that I forgot that. As I said, I used it in KMail, which, under settings, has Configure Pop Filters.
Anne
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