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In article <9511062007.ac22897@news.demon.net>
           nrb@rncb.ac.uk "Nick Brown" writes:

> Does anyone know if there is a way to download mail from demon for 
> only one user and leave the rest in the mail queue? I have about 200 
> users here, and occasionally only want mail for a given user and not 
> have to wait for all mail to come in.

It's not possible with SMTP, but if you have a POP3 access then you
could do it as you could scan all the waiting mail to find out who
it was for before downloading and deleting the mail from demons systems.

With SMTP one of demons systems (puntX.demon.co.uk) will connect to you
and give you the mail, you have no control of what you receive, although
you could bounce mail back to the sender.

However, with POP3, you call demon and get the mail yourself, so you
have more greater control, and can receive (for example) the first
couple of lines of each message, find out who they are destined for
and if they are for you, retrieve the message and delete it from
Demon's systems.

I don't know whether there is a program to do this, but if you have
a DOS slip packet driver, it should'nt be too hard to knock up a simple
program to do the above in QuickBasic, providing you knew how to interface
to the packet driver.

The qbasic prog could then create a script that would go something like
this:

USER <your_pop_username>
PASS <your_pop_password>
RETR 25
DELE 25
RETR 47
DELE 47
QUIT

And it would leave all the other mail there for someone else to pickup.


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