On Monday 22 September 2003 07:26, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:19:32AM -0700, Carla Schroder 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. > > > > I use a different trick when I'm on dialup and don't want to download > > huge messages. I simply use mutt to access my pop mailbox. Then mutt > > only downloads the headers from the pop server. And then I get a list > > of all the messages, who they're from, what the subject is and what > > the size is. I can then delete whichever ones I don't want to > > download. After that's done I use fetchmail to retrieve the mail as I > > normally would. > > The problem at current rates of Swen delivery is that I'd have to check > my mail 10-20 times or more daily to avoid mail-over-quota bounces. > > If Swen is the shape of things to come, it's the end of dial-up POP3 > mail accounts.
I still think imap is a better alternative fro POP (especially if you tend to loose locally store mails and if the ISP is capable of doing some good filtering/antivirusscanning there is no problem at all. -- http://www.de-brauwer.be -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]