I've been using Mailwasher (www.mailwasher.net) for a few years now.  I 
use an older version (1.32) because it doesn't have some of the 
limitations that the current free version has.  The pay version allows 
multiple email accounts.  What it does is download just the headers for 
all of your email, and allow you to delete them while they're still on 
the server.  It will even let you "fake" a bounce message back to the 
sender to make it look like the email address doesn't exist.  All-in-all 
a pretty cool little application.

JP


Tony Smith wrote:
>  
>   
>>> Mailwasher is a free (originally NZ written) email 
>>>       
>> pre-vetting program 
>>     
>>> which would allow this
>>>       
>> Will look into mail screening programs
>>
>>     
>>> If you ever want large attachments sent you are welcome to 
>>>       
>> have them 
>>     
>>> sent to me*
>>>       
>> That's kind of you, but these are mails I didn't ask for and 
>> don't want.
>> They are infrequent, which is why I don't want the bother of 
>> checking mail on the web first several times every day, but 
>> annoying because they tie up OE for ages (dial-up)
>>     
>
>
> You mean like when someone accidently sent a 2 meg file to the Piclist a
> while back?  (IIRC, it wasn't all that interesting anyway, certainly not
> enough to justify the 10-15min download).
>
> Dunno if MailWasher handles attachments in that way, it's been a while.  I
> think it might.  Outlook does.  Thunderbird does too.  TB handles spam quite
> well.
>
> Tony
>
>   

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