[Techtalk] Deleting mail on a server

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 05:38:42PM +0100, David Sumbler wrote:
> My ex-girlfriend has a mailbox on my account.  Recently she has been
> inundated with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of copies of one e-mail
> with a large attachment, all from the same address.  As she uses a
> dial-up account, this is a major problem for her.
> 
> How can I clear these for her from her mailbox?  What I have in mind
> is to use a command line application to log in to the mail server and
> tell it to delete everything received from this one address.

I use "mailfilter" for stuff like that.
http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/

Kathryn Andersen
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