Regrettably, I have about a gigabyte of unread mail on the pop3 server of my isp. I do not wish to lose these messages. I would like to download this backlog of messages to my desktop machine, and sort through them over the holidays.
Also, I question whether the pop3 server allows such a large volume of mail to be downloaded in a single batch. But getmail has a download limit feature which permits downloading messages in small batches. In sorting through the backlog of mail, I would like to use a combination of maildrop and a spam filter such as bmf. I am running Debian Linux. I know how to use getmail to download mail to a maildir or mbox on the desktop. But I do NOT know how to pull messages one at a time from a maildir or mbox on the desktop and feed them to a delivery agent such as maildrop. I would prefer to use maildir rather than mbox. Would the Perl module Mail::Maildir be the proper choice for this task? RLH _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
