Some suggestions (Outlook Express)

[benlinkknilneb]

Hi all,

A little background first:

I'm using a dial-up ISP in our town. There's this guy who got my email address (big indiscretion on my part) and he has this INCREDIBLY annoying habit of forwarding these stupid joke emails (with photo attachments often > 1MB!) to everyone in his friggin' address book. I have asked him over & over to quit sending them to me, because dial-up just can't download them fast enough and it's inconvenient to wait for his crap to download so I can get to the other (important) messages in my box. So, I've decided just to block him since he's never sent anything worthwhile.

My problem is this: all the rules I can come up with for OE (or Outlook's full version on my other computer) download the message before processing the rule. In fact, the "delete from server" or "do not download from server" rules don't even work! Anyone have a suggestion for how to kill this mail before I download it?


Ben
A programmer was drowning. Lots of people watched but did nothing. They couldn't understand why he yelled "F1!"

 

[mattjurado]

I've never tried those specific rules. Not sure if they really work or not.

A few things you can try...

1. Try a different mail client, try it's rules.
2. See if your ISP has a webmail interface you can use to delete messages before you download them. May even be a way to block him there.
3. Contact his ISP, complain.

Matt J.

 

[bazzert]

You could use Mailwasher. It just loads header and other info such as if theres is an attchment.

You can delete the mail from the mail server before its downloaded to your OE

 

[benlinkknilneb]

Hi guys, thanks for the quick responses...

Matt:
Our ISP has webmail... but the rules within it only work if you open your box up with the webmail interface. That was my first thought too. I don't think I'll contact his ISP... that would be a little meaner than I'm trying to be here.

bazzert:
MailWasher was a good suggestion. I'm trying it out now, and I like what I see so far. Thanks!


Ben
A programmer was drowning. Lots of people watched but did nothing. They couldn't understand why he yelled "F1!"