On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 21:18, Carla Schroder wrote: > > On Saturday 20 September 2003 2:27 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > The other way is a neat little trick I use on my ISP account- limit the > > > > size of messages to download, I limit them to 2000 bytes. You can try > > > > different sizes to see what works. Then when I check mail a popup window > > > > appears showing a list of messages, with subject lines and the senders of > > > > any messages bigger than 2000 bytes. Then I can either leave them on the > > > > server, delete them, or download them. I don't know if all mail clients > > > > do this, it's worth checking out. > > > > > > Well that's sweet. > > > > > > I see that you use KMail. Is it KMail that gives you this capability? > > > > Yes, and I'm pretty sure Evolution, Outlook, eudora, and other major mail > > clients can do it too. I love Kmail, it's extremely configurable and > > reliable. > > If Evo can do it, the proper "knob" is well and truly hidden. > Evolution has a 'filter' option that could do a basic "if mail size > 2000 bytes then move to 'suspect spam' folder". There is also a way to pipe a mail message to an external program and check its exit code. So, you could do some crazy stuff if you REALLY wanted to. I'm not that interested. So, I just started to fiddle with procmail and it is doing well. -Kev > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jefferson, LA USA > > "You ask us the same question every day, and we give you the > same answer every day. Someday, we hope that you will believe us..." > U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to a reporter > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]