There is an improved version of the AUTOPOP script to use with NETBAS for fetching mail from POP3 accounts and avoiding spam-download:
www.inti.be/hammer/playnet/autopop6.zip In use with NETBAS[*], the script allows in a "revolving" way to sort out mail at POP3 mailboxes _offline_ without downloading the whole spam load. Especially with dial-in connectivity this can save considerably on connection and online fees and storage volume. The earlier issue (Autopop5) had a somewhat over-secure routine which slowed down the start-up when there were large numbers of mails left at an account after a previous run. The improved script does this much faster. (Even with a "slow" unit - I test on an 25MHz-'286AT - the delay is now almost not noticeable any more.) The script - and its use (under DOS) with a packet driver and the NETBAS interpreter - is devised to keep down metered connectivity costs for emailing with dial-up access. Already in its "slower" version it succeded brilliantly, over the last half year, in comparison even with (though prevailingly high) ADSL rates in the "competitive" telco environments tested in W.European urban areas; not to speak of GSM (mobile phone) uplinks. // Heimo Claasen //<revobild at revobild dot net>// Brussels 2004-08-08 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net [*] NETBAS (www.inti.be/hammer/playnet/netbas34.zip) is the nifty little Basic-like interpreter by Martin Goebbel, running on a packet driver and offering a full-fledged scripting language facility for all sorts of Net tasks.
