The nice thing about Mailwasher is that you never actually download the 
attachment (Thunderbird and Outlook (Express) have to download the 
attachment before analyzing it), you delete the email message directly 
from the server.

Tony Smith wrote:
> I used Mailwasher for a while, and then got tired of it.  Thunderbird works
> just as well.  Better, really, as I don't have to deal with two programs.
> Anyway, the task was blocking (or flagging)  large attachments, not just
> spam (which is usually just small attachments).  Thunderbird & Outlook do
> that.  Mailwasher does ????
>
> Tony
>
>  
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu 
>> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of John Pfaff
>> Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 11:48 PM
>> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
>> Subject: Re: [OT] Blocking/deleting large attachments
>>
>> 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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