Thanks, I am going to check those....

No, the problem is that I know some of those people that send you whatever
junk ( religios, jokes, or whatever ) to many, ( email to all is visible )
and I dont
want to be rude, so I tough I could do something like that, as we said in
the beggining.


"Vanguard" wrote in message
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"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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