On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 01:46:27PM -0600, 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.
Not quite. Fetchmail cannot download only headers of oversized
messages, nor can it delete them. I do not know a way to achieve this
in Linux short of telnetting to port 110. (Or, for that matter, going
to work and using a Windows based mailer... Offtopic: hasn't anyone
succeeded compiling a recent version of Mutt under CygWin?)
> 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.
Fetchmail is not interactive. Mutt could use this advantage over
fetchmail. If it doesn't, I do not see reasons for POP3 client in Mutt
at all.
Perhaps this job would be perfect for a different standalone tool,
however Mutt already does something like this with IMAP folders.
(I do understand that IMAP would be better, but not every mail provider
supports it. Most of them don't even support APOP...)
Best Regards,
Marius Gedminas
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then tell 'em;
then tell 'em what you've tole 'em.
