There is an improved version of the AUTOPOP script to use with NETBAS
for fetching mail from POP3 accounts and avoiding spam-download:

www.inti.be/hammer/playnet/autopop6.zip

In use with NETBAS[*], the script allows in a "revolving" way to sort
out mail at POP3 mailboxes _offline_ without downloading the whole spam
load. Especially with dial-in connectivity this can save considerably
on connection and online fees and storage volume.

The earlier issue (Autopop5) had a somewhat over-secure routine which
slowed down the start-up when there were large numbers of mails left at
an account after a previous run. The improved script does this much
faster. (Even with a "slow" unit - I test on an 25MHz-'286AT - the delay
is now almost not noticeable any more.)

The script - and its use (under DOS) with a packet driver and the NETBAS
interpreter - is devised to keep down metered connectivity costs for
emailing with dial-up access. Already in its "slower" version it
succeded brilliantly, over the last half year, in comparison even with
(though prevailingly high) ADSL rates in the "competitive" telco
environments tested in W.European urban areas; not to speak of GSM
(mobile phone) uplinks.

// Heimo Claasen //<revobild at revobild dot net>// Brussels 2004-08-08
The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net

[*] NETBAS (www.inti.be/hammer/playnet/netbas34.zip) is the nifty little
Basic-like interpreter by Martin Goebbel, running on a packet driver and
offering a full-fledged scripting language facility for all sorts of Net
tasks.