On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:56:51AM +0100, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: >Thanks for the suggestion, which is fine except that one of my (unstated --
>sorry) objectives was to not download the messages before rejecting them;
>as all I need to do is view the SMTP envelope fields, I'd prefer not to
>download the body (often quite large :-( )
>
>Any thoughts?
man fetchmail
Check out SPAM FILTERING and the -l option. You will need to subscribe to either a Linux users list or (ideally) the fetchmail-friends list.