wvdial + USB modem + Ubuntu

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański]

2009/8/7 Paul Hardwick <paul at peck.org.uk>:
> Dom Latter wrote:
>> Paul Hardwick wrote:
[...]
>> Next up...
>>
>> I collect email (for this domain) using IMAP.  Quite a lot of spam gets through
>> (hundreds don't).  To save bandwidth would it be better IYO to check the account
>> first with webmail and delete spam on the server?
>>
> Its not my area but if I understand IMAP correctly then some clients can
> be configured so only message headers are initially stored locally. So I
> think your mail client would be able to achieve similar tasks to webmail
> like deleting without downloading first.

Or you can even write a script which will check headers for you.
I did something what was manipulating gmail account using python
imaplib library.

I've thought about posting it here, but it's a bit specialist and
commented in Polish. However, I can think about preparing short
example.

Wawrzek
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