"GESY" wrote in message
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I see what you mean, there is no way to avoid the download of unwanted
mail.

Well, thanks anyway.
I wish I new the technology behind, so I could write a little tool in
C++
But I am NOT a Pro on that, just my hobby.


Usually spam is small in size. The spammer wants to spew as much as
possible so smaller mails means more can be sent in the same amount of
time. They also don't want to delay you getting their spew so they want
them small so they download quickly. However, if you are getting
thousands of spam mails per mail poll then they cumulatively slow down
the mail session. While I've heard of some users getting thousands of
spam mails per day, I've never heard of one that gets thousands for
every mail session.

You could use something in addition to Outlook to monitor for spam. I
use Magic Mail Monitor because it is not only a mail monitor but also
provides rules that I can define. I also use SpamPal to tag which mails
are spam. So far, I don't delete the spam tagged using the Bayesian
filter but I do delete the other spam - and it gets deleted from the
server. Magic only downloads the headers which is often sufficient to
detect if a mail is spam or not. If SpamPal tags the mail as spam (and
not as Bayesian spam) then a rule in Magic will delete it from the
server. Magic has a logfile showing the rule-deleted messages so you
can occasionally check the summary list to see if a good mail got
deleted (i.e., a false positive). SpamPal has a User Logfile plug-in
that will save a plain-text copy of all spam-tagged mails (I wrote a
batch file to delete the archive spam copies after N days old which I
add to Scheduled Tasks to keep only those within, say, the last week; it
should be available from the plug-in author's web site). That way, if I
see a mail that I really wanted to read but got deleted by Magic after
it had been tagged as spam my SpamPal, I can go look at the .txt copy.
PopTray is another e-mail monitor utility that has rules you can use to
filter out the spam provided you have something to identify what is the
spam, like SpamPal.

Both Magic and PopTray only work with POP3 and IMAP accounts so forget
about using it for Hotmail since WebDAV scripting is used (i.e., Hotmail
does not use an Internet standard e-mail protocol). I've heard
PopPeeper can check Hotmail accounts but then it has no rules so you
can't use it to monitor for new mails and also delete from server the
spam mails.

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