A particular account has got filled with a few hundred junk emails. Is there
any way just to delete these on the server, without having to download them?
I know you can telnet to port 110 of the server, but DELE only allows you to
delete one message at a time, and I don't fancy doing that ... :-)
Is there a lightweight app or script that would connect to port 110, and then
for i
On Saturday 15 December 2001 12:54 pm, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
A particular account has got filled with a few hundred junk emails. Is there any way just to delete these on the server, without having to download them?
I know you can telnet to port 110 of the server, but DELE only allows you to delete one message at a time, and I don't fancy doing that ... :-)
Is there a lightweight app or script that would connect to port 110, and then for i
I'm sure there must be, but where?
Kevin
Do you have access to the server? (either physically or SSH or......) Just delete that mailbox from /var/spool/mail. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 12/15/01 12:59 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "I started out with nothing & still have most of it left."
On Saturday 15 December 2001 18:00, Bruce Marshall wrote:
Just delete that mailbox from /var/spool/mail.
Doh! Bangs head on table. Thank you! The spool was in a slightly different location, but this did the trick. Zentara - thanks for the ref to poppy. I'd never heard of it before, but it would appear to be ideal for cases where you don't have access to the server. I'm poring over it now! Kevin
Kevin Donnelly wrote:
A particular account has got filled with a few hundred junk emails. Is there any way just to delete these on the server, without having to download them?
I know you can telnet to port 110 of the server, but DELE only allows you to delete one message at a time, and I don't fancy doing that ... :-)
Is there a lightweight app or script that would connect to port 110, and then for i
I'm sure there must be, but where?
Yeah, it would seem that all mail clients should have that feature built-in don't it? Here is the info for poppy, a simple perl script that does what you want. It will list the headers, let you mark them for deletion, then delete on the server. Begin3 Title: poppy - simple perl POP3/IMAP mail processor with SMTP support. Version: 3.1 Entered-date: 27MAR2001 Description: A simple perl script to retrieve mail headers from a POP3 or IMAP server and individually view, save or delete them. Requires perl. Simple mail reader which relies on the POP3 or IMAP server to do most the work. A good use is to delete or to skip over ranges of emails on a POP3 server when on a slow link. You may also view only a specified number of lines from a message to see if you would like to download the whole message. Also has support for replying to emails using SMTP servers. Author: cbagwell@sprynet.com (Chris Bagwell) Primary-site: http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell/projects.html Alternate-site: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/mail/pop/poppy-3.1.tar.gz Platforms: Linux, SunOS, Solaris, Win95/NT, most un*x with perl Copying-policy: GPL End
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