On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:41:12PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > One problem I had with it is that it gave the message lengths as > zero, which didn't aid swen-spotting. I do get the message lengths so this may be a problem with how mutt interfaces with your particular pop server. It also might be because I'm using unstable... > Thanks to all you people I've now got enough solutions to leave > me in a state of complete confusion. However, I still don't > understand (and I understand very little of these network > matters) why an interactive fetchmail thing doesn't seem to > exist. Is it because it would clog access to the mailserver if > fetchmail users held connections open while they pondered? Do > the servers close the connection after the briefest of periods > of inactivity? Or what? Interactive fetchmail kind of defeats the purpose of fetchmail. I think most people use fetchmail to make pop access feel like a traditional unix mail system. So fetching mail manually and filtering through it by hand would certainly break that illusion. However I think that anything that an interactive fetchmail could do mutt or some other email program that can connect directly to a pop3 server could do as well. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> http://www.crasseux.com
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