You can limit to mail less than a certain size, or within a size range. http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#patterns
~z [MIN]-[MAX] You can make a macro which applies this limit. You may also get creative with the header format to highlight mail that is over a certain size. I'm not sure about interrupting the download. Good luck, Andrew On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 08:11:18AM -0500, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm reading when not at home my mail directly with IMAP in mutt; mutt > knows perfect the size of the mail (body) when presenting the Index > page. When reading via datamobile I do not want to fetch mails with tons > (Megabytes) of attachments. Sometimes I see the size but by accident I do > start fetching such messages. > > Questions: > > How could I set a limit in mutt that it denies to tech messages with > size over this limit? > > How can I interrupt such fetch without killing mutt from another > terminal? > > Thanks > > matthias > > -- > Matthias Apitz, ✉ g...@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 > Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub > > I am not at war with Russia. > Я не воюю с Россией. > Ich bin nicht im Krieg mit Russland.
