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thanks Graham. this looks pretty neat . i may be able to use some 
of this code. i just need a simple script that connects to pop, loops 
through emails and checks each one for pattern in subject and deletes 
it if it matches. thanks again.

your're welcome guest

In most cases, where some spam has been bounced back to you as the 
account does not exist, the first line of the email says something 
like

Return-Path: <>

The <> is a special null email address to stop mail loops.


So, if you check all your email for this first line, then you should 
be able to delete all the automated bounces.

what is the correct way to handle vector arithmeitc? Or rather, is 
there an easy way to show vector arithmetic

eg.
2 * [2, 3, 4] .... results should be [6, 8, 10]

You could use Andrew Martin's map function to achieve this

do http://www.rebol.org/library/scripts-download/arguments.r; 
Needs

do http://www.rebol.org/library/scripts-download/map.r; Instantiate
map func [a][2 * a] [1 2 3 4 5 6] ; supply the function to map
>>[2 4 6 8 10 12]

You might also check out Ladislav's matrix functions: http://www.fm.vslib.cz/~ladislav/rebol/#section-6

trying to open a pop mailbox with nonstandard password with the following 
code:

REBOL []
 mailbox: open [
        scheme: 'pop
        user: "myname"
        pass: "%$100k"
        host: "mydomain.com"
    ]

foreach message mailbox [
    print message
    ask "Next? "
]
close mail

I get the following error when I do this: ** Script Error: foreach 
expected data argument of type: series
** Near: foreach message mailbox [
    print message
    ask "Next? "
]
close

this is from a simple example in the script library with the only 
modification being an open block instead of a single line open. Thanks 
for any insight.

that would happen if mailbox = none

try 

print type? mailbox before you use the foreach

thanks Graham, I get " type has no value" does this mean that rebol 
is unable to open this pop account? I know my domain, user and pwd 
are correct

don't you need to specify the port id/

try setting 

trace/net on

before you open the port and see what happens

No, it means that you used type instead of type? (with the question 
mark)

right  you are Brian, I had type ? not type? which returns port. 
so it is opening the mailbox but isn't mailbox a series?

I think some of the documentation on pop is incorrect as you have 
found.

aha. I think my understanding of using pop is flawed. i need some 
zzzzz's for now will play with this on the morrow. thanks for the 
help. gnight

user:[pass-:-mail-:-example-:-com]
remove at mailbox 22
close mailbox

this example I'm pretty sure doesn't work

complication is i have a password with special chars % and $ so i 
have to use the block form of the url

that's not the problem

i think i figured out what the problem was, I had a pop block, with 
open mailbox: open [scheme: 'pop ...etc

i tried mailbox: read [scheme: 'pop and it's running but I expect 
to run out of heap space as I have 800 emails  ;)

; open mailbox

len: length? mailbox
bounces: copy []

for i 1 len 1 [
	email: import-email raw: pick mailbox i
	if email/reply-to = "<>" [
		append bounces i
		print [ "Bounce at" i ]
	]
]

; remove bounces

reverse bounces
foreach num bounces [
	mailbox: head mailbox
	mailbox: skip mailbox ( num - 1 )
	remove mailbox
]

close mailbox

untested ... :)

wow, I'm impressed, I might have to stay awake for this ;)!!

Graham is the mail master, along with Phil. :-)

Hey, it's untested .... !!

this is a great example. at this time I'm going to be moving bounces 
into another mailbox instead of deleting them as I need them for 
forensic evidence. We have just received word that the ISP is forcing 
the subscriber offline as the spam constitues a breach of contract

thanks I'll  kick this around a bit but it's a great start for someone 
who's having trouble wrapping his head around the rebol paradigm, 
too many decades of procedural programming, I'm afraid.

this is rather brute force as each email is downloaded ...
better to use one of the top hacks to just get the headers

good idea, some of the emails are huge'

I reversed the series so that you remove them from the end backwards

as otherwise I guess the numbering changes if you remove from the 
head instead

any idea if there is a way to read emails and forward them to another 
inbox without altering the header? it would be nice if I could move 
them from one account to another without affecting the to/from.

why not just write them to a text file?

well, i'll do that to, but if I have to forward one to someone its 
easier if its in an inbox. at this point i've been up too many hours 
in a row to think straight, so I'm just trying to preserve everything 
in statis in case we have to revisit the "evidence".

that should be 

 email/return-path = "<>"

got it

thanks

I guess you could save them individually, and then send to the other 
mailbox as an attachment

were talking thousands. I just have 800 in one account.. i would 
just as soon tie up some of my 1GB on the providers mail server ;)

I know your pain.  I was the victim of such an identity theft, and 
I was getting 10,000 bounces a day.

Hello.  I was wondering how to replace a quotation mark in a string.. 
like this.
x: 'this " one'
replace x '"' ""

??

replace/all {A"B"C} {"} "'"

Ok, thanks.

the carret is rebol's escape chat so

>> s: "^""
== {"}

is another way

Just reading the rbbs.r script, and there are a number of comments 
about Rebol/View embedded in it .. which is a little odd as R/View 
is not recommended to be used to run cgi scripts.