Re: Why can't ISPs stop spam/virus ?!

From: Ed Murphy (emurphy42_at_socal.rr.com)
Date: 09/22/03 

Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:06:07 GMT

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:26:43 +0000, easy-la wrote:

> It's not good enough to be able to filter once it's in your mailbox.
> In my and many other victims, the mail-box is disable by overflow !!

Which is why I have fetchmail emptying the ISP's mailbox every 15 minutes
and moving its contents to my local box. (Where procmail sends most of
the flood to /dev/null, sight unseen.)