This situation may be one of the cases where using a SPAM fighting program makes sense.............by using a SPAM program that reads mail on the server, you can delete such trash before it's delivered to your mail program. Even if you don't use a SPAM fighting program, make a filter to delete it as soon as it's received. It's better than nothing <G> Regards from the "Keyboard Cowboy", ,,,,,,,, =D4=BF=D4=AC Cincinnati, Ohio Scottsdale, Arizona --------------------------------- Sunday, 2/1/2004, @ 12:02:59 AM EST --------------------------------- Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor. -- Smiley Blanton, M.D. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D|:0:|=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:37:59 -0500, cris wrote: | this is so odd. it never used to be like that. | I just tried messing with my rules and what you say is exactly | what happens in my OE6 also - I used to use that rule when | different viruses were out there - like that old snow white one! | How frustrating!! | why would you want to delete it from the server after it arrived | in your box - mine are deleted from my server automatically by | my server once they come in to me. | too bad it's so difficult to write to microsoft to ask them | questions - this would be a good one for them. Cris | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: milady | To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 5:40 PM | Subject: -=3DPCTechTalk=3D- Re: Intelligence on SPAM and viruses | | | I would like to delete messages from the server but my OE | determines in the message rules that EVERYTHING happens AFTER | the message is DELIVERED..you can't change that. I don't | understand why. There are places to indicate you WANT something | deleted from the server but once you hit the final box for WHAT | to delete or more it says " take this action AFTER the message | is deliverd..so it all comes into the mail program.. *~<*> Mary | Lou<*>~* /\ - /\ | | | | ^ .^ << | --0---0-- | kg6ocz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | Why wait?...join Earthlink... | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "The Keyboard Cowboy" <KBCowboy@xxxxxxxxx> | To: "!Keyboard Cowboy Group Send" | <!Keyboard.Cowboy.Group.Send@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 2:12 PM Subject: -=3DPCTechTalk=3D- | Intelligence on SPAM and viruses | | | | From the Kim Komando List: | | | | --> GOVERNMENT TO ISSUE WARNINGS ON VIRUSES | Internet attacks have become so serious that the government has | started issuing e-mail warnings. Its first warning went out for | MyDoom. You can sign up for the warnings at: | | http://www.us-cert.gov/index.html | | | Additionally, many people have been having problems with mail | getting "stopped" or "jammed" on there ISPs. I had two | instances in the past three days. Investigation determined that | a SPAMer was sending a SPAM message for a resort location (same | SPAM message both times). The header of this SPAM had hundreds | and hundreds of e-mail addresses in it to try to spoof the real | sender. There were so many addresses in the "from" and "To" of | the e-mail, that I was unable to get to it even using programs | that read the mail on the server rather than downloading it | (SPAM removal programs, and the "server" function in Poco). I | finally called my ISP and got it deleted, and a filter put in | place at the ISP level. They were able to determine that actual | source as: | | mailbox.co.za | | | I would strongly recommend that you make filters in any SPAM or | e-mail programs you use that block that domain. Have the | filters delete the message from the server. | | Regards from the | "Keyboard Cowboy", | ,,,,,,,, | =3DD4=3DBF=3DD4=3DAC | Cincinnati, Ohio | Scottsdale, Arizona | --------------------------------- | Saturday, 1/31/2004, @ 1:33:51 PM EST | --------------------------------- | It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, | but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends. | | -- Euripedes | | | To unsub or change your email settings: | //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk | | | To access our Archives: | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ | //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ | | | For more info: | //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=3Dpctechtalk | | | To unsub or change your email settings: | //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk | | | To access our Archives: | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ | //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ | | | For more info: | //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=3Dpctechtalk | | | To unsub or change your email settings: | //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk | | | To access our Archives: | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ | //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ | | | For more info: | //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=3Dpctechtalk To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk