> I think running fetchmail by cron  would work, but the problem arises
> when I am out of town for a couple of days and my home machine is not
> running.  I could, of course, leave it running while I'm gone, but I
> prefer to shut it down.  Next time I return from a trip I may try
> downloading only 100 messages at a time and see what happens (but
> there must be an easier way).  Thanks for the suggestion,
> 

> Ric
Hi rick, 
I suspect you are in the same boat as me, dialup. A reasonable answer is
to unsubscribe from high volume email lists (debian-user) so that
important emails do not get lost or bounced.
online newsreaders like gmame can help to read email not downloaded for
the week.
-Kev

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