On 06-Dec-1999, David DeSimone wrote:
> Ronny Haryanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Some people doesn't have permanent internet connection, and it even
> > costs them by the minute. Therefore selective downloading could make
> > sense.
> Certainly. I have to dial up to the Internet myself. Fetchmail is
> configured to only poll POP servers when I am actively connected, and
> while I don't have it configured that way, it can be told to skip
> messages that are beyond a certain size. Thus, the desired behavior can
> be easily automated with fetchmail.
Maybe selective downloading he wanted is not only by size, but by
subject, sender or whatever.
> That's really the main reason that Mutt's POP3 support is so lame:
> Because fetchmail does it better, so there's no point in doing all the
> work to improve Mutt's support.
I agree with you 100%, I just want to point out some possible reasons,
that's all :)
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Ronny Haryanto
