On Saturday 27 September 2003 23:45, Bart Symons wrote:
Because there are so many of them, because each mail is >100kbyte in size, because it slows down my mail downloads, because it inflates my local maildir files, because it pushes my Mbytes/month over the max. allocated by my ISP, because I don't want to inadvertenly forware anything to people still using Windows and finally because all of this is even worse for people still using a modem.
Well filtering via kmail will not solve any of these problems. 1) you've already downloaded it 2) you've already spent the megabytes/month getting it to kmail 3) Don't be forewarding things with attachments with out looking at them 4) your local maildir is already enlarged just getting the mail to kmail. As I tried to point out, by the time its in Kmail filtering is pointless because you'be alredy downloaded it, and its on your machine. It won't hurt linux. However, if you are in the habit of forwarding things WITHOUT checking them, you could do your friends a big favor and just don't do that any more. There is nothing you can run on your machine which will virus check a mail BEFORE it is downloaded. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen