Check Mail on Startup

[Jenny Brien]

I have a dial-up connection and am using Mailwasher to delete spam on the
server without downloading. That progam has a command string I can set to
run my chosen email client (M2 of course!).

Experimenting with this, I find I can bring up Opera by giving its path,
but any remaining words on the command string are interpreted by it as
URLs which it attempts to open. Is there any way I get M2 to check mail
automatically on startup?

[Rijk van Geijtenbeek]

Post by Jenny Brien
I have a dial-up connection and am using Mailwasher to delete spam on
the server without downloading. That progam has a command string I can
set to run my chosen email client (M2 of course!).
Experimenting with this, I find I can bring up Opera by giving its path,
but any remaining words on the command string are interpreted by it as
URLs which it attempts to open. Is there any way I get M2 to check mail
automatically on startup?

Check every 5 minutes is the default settings for new accounts, and if you
keep that settings, M2 should check mail automatically after starting up.

[Jenny Brien]

On Thu, 06 May 2004 13:04:45 +0100, Jenny Brien

Post by Jenny Brien
I have a dial-up connection and am using Mailwasher to delete spam on
the server without downloading. That progam has a command string I can
set to run my chosen email client (M2 of course!).
Experimenting with this, I find I can bring up Opera by giving its
path, but any remaining words on the command string are interpreted by
it as URLs which it attempts to open. Is there any way I get M2 to
check mail automatically on startup?

Check every 5 minutes is the default settings for new accounts, and if
you keep that settings, M2 should check mail automatically after
starting up.

Thank you, but I have unchecked that setting in my mail accounts
specifically because I do
*not* want Opera to download spam before I have a chance to delete it from
the server. It's a
POP account so I don't think there is any way of doing that with Opera
alone.

So my original question is academic for me anyway - I need to be
physically present to scan
the mail headers before downloading anyway, so it's no great hardship to
press the check
button after Opera comes up.
--

[Don Groves]

Post by Jenny Brien
I have a dial-up connection and am using Mailwasher to delete spam on
the server without downloading. That progam has a command string I can
set to run my chosen email client (M2 of course!).
Experimenting with this, I find I can bring up Opera by giving its
path, but any remaining words on the command string are interpreted by
it as URLs which it attempts to open. Is there any way I get M2 to
check mail automatically on startup?

Hi Jenny,

Does Mailwasher allow you to automatically delete spams from
the server using filters or must they be deleted manually,
one at a time?

Thanks,
dg

[R.A.G. Seely]

Post by Don Groves
Does Mailwasher allow you to automatically delete spams from
the server using filters or must they be deleted manually,
one at a time?

Mailwasher allows many options, including automatic deletion from
server. It will also allow you to view the list it intends to delete
first, if you want to give it a quick look. (In such a list, each
email would have a few lines to allow you to preview the content.)
In short it is very flexible, with an easy interface to the
appropriate filterlist, so you can add to or modify the list easily,
using many various criteria. You should try it out - you can do so
before you decide if you want to purchase the software. (I use the
pro version, and do not regret the modest price!) There is a free
version as well, which isn't quite as user-friendly or as flexible.

Pro version: http://entier.ecosm.com/link/?wrbepq
Free version: http://www.mailwasher.net/

[Don Groves]

Many thanks, rags. I've been trying to get someone at
Opera interested in making Opera's email client do similar
things so we wouldn't need to use a separate program but
so far, no apparent luck.

I've downloaded and set up the trial version of MW Pro
and it seems to do exactly what I want. Thanks again!
--
dg


On Wed, 12 May 2004 16:55:52 GMT, R.A.G. Seely

Post by R.A.G. Seely

Post by Don Groves
Does Mailwasher allow you to automatically delete spams from
the server using filters or must they be deleted manually,
one at a time?

Mailwasher allows many options, including automatic deletion from
server. It will also allow you to view the list it intends to delete
first, if you want to give it a quick look. (In such a list, each
email would have a few lines to allow you to preview the content.)
In short it is very flexible, with an easy interface to the
appropriate filterlist, so you can add to or modify the list easily,
using many various criteria. You should try it out - you can do so
before you decide if you want to purchase the software. (I use the
pro version, and do not regret the modest price!) There is a free
version as well, which isn't quite as user-friendly or as flexible.
Pro version: http://entier.ecosm.com/link/?wrbepq
Free version: http://www.mailwasher.net/

[R.A.G. Seely]

Post by Don Groves
Many thanks, rags. I've been trying to get someone at
Opera interested in making Opera's email client do similar
things so we wouldn't need to use a separate program but
so far, no apparent luck.
I've downloaded and set up the trial version of MW Pro
and it seems to do exactly what I want. Thanks again!

There is one advantage to using a separate utility for this sort of
thing, and that is that if you should use more than one mail client,
your filtering is still unimpaired. And the preview mail feature of
Mailwasher is useful as well - it lets you look at a lot of mail more
quickly than M2 or some other mail reader will do. (Since it only
downloads a part of the mail - of course you can get more of any
single item should you want, and that's still faster than loading up
your regular client.) I used to use a mail previewer long ago for
that purpose, only switching to Mailwasher when I wanted the filter
ability as well.

[Don Groves]

On Wed, 12 May 2004 23:43:45 GMT, R.A.G. Seely

Post by R.A.G. Seely

Post by Don Groves
Many thanks, rags. I've been trying to get someone at
Opera interested in making Opera's email client do similar
things so we wouldn't need to use a separate program but
so far, no apparent luck.
I've downloaded and set up the trial version of MW Pro
and it seems to do exactly what I want. Thanks again!

There is one advantage to using a separate utility for this sort of
thing, and that is that if you should use more than one mail client,
your filtering is still unimpaired. And the preview mail feature of
Mailwasher is useful as well - it lets you look at a lot of mail more
quickly than M2 or some other mail reader will do. (Since it only
downloads a part of the mail - of course you can get more of any
single item should you want, and that's still faster than loading up
your regular client.) I used to use a mail previewer long ago for
that purpose, only switching to Mailwasher when I wanted the filter
ability as well.

There's one change to MailWasher that would make it
universally usable by all mail clients - make MW
function as a local machine mail server. Then any
mail client would work by merely pointing it at the
port number being served by MW and using the standard
protocols. There would be no need to coordinate between
the two, each could be be set to run independent of the
other. Then the situation would be as if the ISP mail
server were doing the filtering, why they can't give us
a blacklist capability themselves, I don't know - maybe
some legality.

I think I'll propose this to the MW people.
--
dg