Re: mpop - download just one single email (or a batch of 10) and stop/ exit?
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 08:14:37AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:52:43 +1000
> Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know if mpop can be used to download just a single email,
> > or a batch of say 10 emails, and then stop or exit?
> >
> > This would be useful when my boondocks internet is shaped and the
> > emails have piled up, and I just want to download a few whilst
> > leaving the rest to be downloaded later.
>
> Hm, it doesn't look like mpop has such an option. Getmail, however, does:
>
> http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/configuration.html#conf-options
>
> Celejar
Thank you.
It's been on my list a few years to check out getmail - I finally
have a compelling reason :)
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