Re: [MLUG] linux pop3 mail nuker?

["Mark A. Haidekker" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Monday 03 February 2003 09:03 pm, John Engelbrecht wrote:
> Not quiet,
> Apparently even for cable modem users,
> it takes a long time to download the emails then delete them.
>
> I want to  delete them  from the server without downloading,
> I've done this along time ago.

I take it that you don't have direct access to the pop-3 box, then?

If all fails and nobody comes up with a ready-to-go nuke, it shouldn't be too 
difficult to write a script that logs into port 110 with cleartext USER and 
PASS (try doing this with telnet, it's fun) and starts DELEting one after the 
other. After all, POP3 is cleartext...

Mark



> On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Mark A. Haidekker wrote:
> > On Monday 03 February 2003 07:33 pm, John Engelbrecht wrote:
> > > I came accross a mail nuke for win95 a long.. time ago,
> > > where if you have too much mail and it is going to take
> > > hrs to download, you can just nuke it clean.
> > >
> > > I have 1921 email messages in my socket.net account,
> > > And I want to nuke the messages fast, fetchmail
> > > can't seem to even delete one of them messages.
> > >
> > > Anyone know of a linux/unix program that will
> > > get the job done?
> >
> > Nuke the mesages? Would
> >
> > cat /dev/null > /var/spool/mail/jengelbr
> >
> > work for you?
> >
> > Mark
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