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John McCabe wrote:

> ... I will have to
> reconfigure my Pegasus settings to get POP3 mail. Obviously it is
> beneficial to be able to reject messages in my SMTP server as they are
> bounced back as rejected but, as far as I can see, that isn't possible
> with POP3 - the best I could do was leave any messages I didn't want
> on the server and wait for them to be returned as non-deliverable.

On a POP3 system you can't bounce messages back to sender. I don't think 
this is a good idea anyway, as the bounce always goes to an innocent 
whose name has been taken in vain anyway.

Things you can do in POP3 are: download message headers only; and delete 
messages from the server without downloading them. In practice, Pegasus 
mail for 32-bit Windows (I don't know the other versions well enough to 
say) will let you do a selective mail download. This will show you the 
headers. You can then mark mail for downloading, deletion, or both. I 
personally use Spampal in conjunction with selective download -- I get 
headers which may be preceded by "**SPAM", with a few false negatives and 
even fewer false positives, so I sort by subject, scan visually, block-
select and delete.

Some other mail programs allow this, bit not Outlook Express.

HTH,
-- 
Michael Salem