on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani (bijan@psq.com) 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.
Peace.
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