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I get hundreds of spam messages every day.

I use the Held Email folder to see if any normal email has accidentally been placed together with the spam:

http://www.spamcop.net/reportheld?action=heldlog

However, I can only get the interface to display 100 Held Emails at the time. This means I have to report them all in clusters of 100 emails to get to the end of the list, where I suspect to find a normal email.

(I have 1400 held emails now, but I suspect that would be much more in the future!)

Is there any way to work around this problem?

Thanks!

BFM

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I can only get the interface to display 100 Held Emails at the time. This means I have to report them all in clusters of 100 emails to get to the end of the list, where I suspect to find a normal email.

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You don't say what type of account you have (free reporting, paid reporting or flat-rate Email).

The VER interface is, as you report, limited to 100 messages displayed at a time.

If you have a SpamCop flat-rate Email account you can view the held mail folder from within the webmail interface and this offers the ability to enlarge or reduce the number of messages displayed in a folder.

Andrew

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Ah! I have it now - thanks.

I have the account where I pay 30$ a year to set up a spamcop-email-account. Is this the "flat-rate account" ?

Any way to change the number of mails displayed in the non-webmail interface? This interface - apart from being more user-friendly, IMHO - has the advantage that it has the SpamAssassin score displayed. I'm still tuning this number to see which setting is the best for me.

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Ah! I have it now - thanks.

I have the account where I pay 30$ a year to set up a spamcop-email-account. Is this the "flat-rate account" ?

Any way to change the number of mails displayed in the non-webmail interface? This interface - apart from being more user-friendly, IMHO - has the advantage that it has the SpamAssassin score displayed. I'm still tuning this number to see which setting is the best for me.

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Yes, the accounts are one and the same

No, VER has a fix 100 message display. We would all love to be able to adjust it but I do not think it is going to happen.

IMAP is another way of viewing and handling the held mail folder (which I perfer) but it does not provide the additonal information seen in the VER listing.

Note: to Andrew: the referenced link in post#1 is only accessable to SpamCop Email account holders which is also true for the VER inteface. Just thought you might like to know. Also thanks for your many informative posts in the forums. Your help is greatly appreciated.

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Note: to Andrew: the referenced link in post#1 is only accessable to SpamCop Email account holders which is also true for the VER inteface.  Just thought you might like to know.  Also thanks for your many informative posts in the forums.  Your help is greatly appreciated.

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Thanks for the heads-up. It isn't always obvious which links apply to which accounts and only having the flat-rate Email account I can't test the others <_< Thanks for the encouragement.

Andrew

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Yes, Andrew, thanks for the help!

only having the flat-rate Email account I can't test the others

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Besides my SpamCop Email System Account, I keep a minimum of three free accounts for testing purposes: one Free Reporting Account with Mailhosts, one Free Reporting Account without Mailhosts, and one ISP Account. Of course, doing so requires multiple email addresses, but I have plenty of those. :)
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I'm displaying 500 messages at the time now. Any more and my browser will time out :(

Currently, I have 16,000+ spam messages. I suspect that a legitimate email has ended up somewhere in this bulk.

Is there any way to easily search them all? I don't want to do this manually - reading email headers about Viagra and Stock promotion.

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Is there any way to easily search them all? I don't want to do this manually - reading email headers about Viagra and Stock promotion.

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Not really, unless you a searching for something very specific.

My guess is that you need to set aside time to clear out the held mail folder.

I've not tried the approach I'm about to suggest but others will confirm whether it works. You could set up a mail program to access your SpamCop account via IMAP. I believe that you would be able to view the held mail folder in your IMAP mail program and that might give you more sophisticated search and deletion options.

You clearly have a growing held mail problem. Have you considered why this is the case?

One of my clients had a problem of this magnitude. We discovered they were accepting all messages addressed to any address at their domain. The bulk of the spam was to non-existent addresses and just got straight into the held folder. We set up individual mailboxes for the users concerned and all the junk reduced to a manageable size. Now they clear their held mail once a week and all is fine.

Andrew

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