[Scottish] Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, eggs and chips, without the spam please?

[Phil Deane]

On Wednesday 19 Nov 2003 07:24, James Myles wrote:
> Phil Deane wrote:
> > Hi Folks
> >
> > It has been over 2 months now since this bloody virus starting sending
> > emails to people, and I am still getting up to 100 a day. I know this
> > because I installed spamassassin at the time, which is good at filtering
> > out spams.(Over 2000 in 2 months!!!, not including virus!)
> >
> > But these fecking things are not spams, and are getting through, on a
> > dial up modem it kills me to have to download 11Mb of email when I come
> > home from work, for maybe 100 real 2 k emails and the rest 154K virus'
> >
> > It must stop, it is driving me mad. I didn't want to us the likes of
> > mailfilter as then I dint get an option of what I delete, it just does
> > it, but it might be my only option.
> >
> > Advice anyone?
>
> Phil,
>
> Use IMAP instead of POP.
>


I will investigate IMAP, not something I am altogether familiar with. But what 
benefit would that have to me?  

I checked and I can use IMAP

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Phil Deane
http://www.MiracleExpress.force9.co.uk