On Tue, 07 Dec 1999, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 01:46:27PM -0600, David DeSimone wrote:
> > Ronny Haryanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Some people doesn't have permanent internet connection, and it even
> > > costs them by the minute. Therefore selective downloading could make
> > > sense.
> >
> > Certainly. I have to dial up to the Internet myself. Fetchmail is
> > configured to only poll POP servers when I am actively connected, and
> > while I don't have it configured that way, it can be told to skip
> > messages that are beyond a certain size. Thus, the desired behavior can
> > be easily automated with fetchmail.
>
> Not quite. Fetchmail cannot download only headers of oversized
> messages, nor can it delete them. I do not know a way to achieve this
> in Linux short of telnetting to port 110. (Or, for that matter, going
> to work and using a Windows based mailer... Offtopic: hasn't anyone
> succeeded compiling a recent version of Mutt under CygWin?)
>
There is a perl utility called Poppy which I've been using for this
purpose for a long time.
It's available in the /system/mail/pop directory of your local mirror
of sunsite.unc.edu
Adam
