Just one reason why I use the excellent and free Pegasus Mail for Windows. Its Selective Download feature downloads message headers (including the message size) and displays a list, from which you can chose to have it delete messages without downloading them. Just sort the list by size, select all the messages bigger than the size you want to download, click "Mark for Deletion," then make like a Trekkie and click the "Make It So" button. I've also spotted something all the SoBig.F messages have - a message header "X-Scanner: Found to be clean." So I set up a rule in Pegasus that looks for that header in a message and trashes it. It made blowing away 100+ worm messages the matter of a few seconds. Pegasus also doesn't open or run attachments unless you tell it to, and won't fetch graphic links - often used as web bugs, and also can be used to run malicious code in Windows systems - in formatted messages. You can also download your mail, go off-line and disconnect from the Internet, deal with your mail (including replying to mail), then reconnect and send your mail when you get done. Been using it for about seven years now very happily. You can find it at http://www.pmail.com or just Google(tm) around for "Pegasus Mail for Windows". David gnome@hawaii.rr.com On 21 Aug 03, at 10:09, Jim Muth wrote:
Spam is one thing, but when I opened my e-mail box last evening after a 3-day absence, I found over 750 spams, many with a 70KB attachment waiting to be downloaded. Since I have a slow dial-up connection, each attachment takes almost one minute to download. A simple bit of math will show that the total download will take close to 12 hours to complete, and the new junk is arriving almost as fast as I can download it. Needless to say I am rather annoyed.