UUCP seems to do a pretty good job. Can shedule big mails for later. Also can pick up from where it left off, good thing for locations with sucky lines.
Downside : Service providers don't provide it. But if ur fortunate enough to have ur own servers... On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:23:39 +0530 (IST) Manish Jethani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometime today, Philip S Tellis wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Manish Jethani wrote: > > > > > Why do you think fecthmail sucks? It does a neat job. What > > > alternative do you suggest anyway? > > > > Actually, what I'd like from fetchmail, is a way to limit the > > max size of mails downloaded based on the total size of the > > mailbox. > > Basically, you want to be able to set filters in fetchmail (and > NOT procmail). More precisely, you want to apply filters > *before* downloading a message (on the headers, maybe (TOP 0)). > That's what even I've been looking for. But I can't complain > because I *am* a programmer and I *have* the source code. Don't > have the time though. > > Manish > > -- > Clovis' Consideration of an Atmospheric Anomaly: > The perversity of nature is nowhere better demonstrated than > by the fact that, when exposed to the same atmosphere, bread > becomes hard while crackers become soft. > > > _______________________________________________ > Meeting on 6th 4pm at IIT Mumbai. See http://www.ilug-bom.org.in/meet/ > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > > _______________________________________________ Meeting on 6th 4pm at IIT Mumbai. See http://www.ilug-bom.org.in/meet/ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

