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Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?



>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Hennigan <glhenni@sandia.gov> writes:

    Gary> I would assume that if you didn't want to leave the mail on the
    Gary> remote server you'd just use fetchmail to download it, although, I
    Gary> *think* gnus has it's own software to download the mail if that's
    Gary> what you want.

Yup, gnus has its own stuff to download.  It can read from a local file, a
remote file (using some hackery described in the info page), for a POP3
account, and an IMAP account.

I just use gnus' stuff because I'm too lazy to learn fetchmail.

Hubert

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