On Saturday 26 October 2002 01:15 am, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > Sandip> 2. can i ask fetchmail to download only headers and > > Sandip> delete unwanted headers off the server only?
No fetchmail doesn't do this. > > i read up the documentation. from what i understand, it can not. dont > you think downloading headers alone first, deleting unwanted ones off > the server itself and finally downloading the required ones is a more > efficient way (in terms of internet bandwidth)? is there any way of > achieving it? > I saw your msg about the checking out the headers before getting the body so I wrote a small perl script to down the headers. You can play with it if you like. For me it didn't help any because most of the mail I get is just text. The time spent opening the socket twice was longer than it took to just down the body to start with. Maybe if your spam to mail ratio is higher than mine it would help you more. http://hamiii.sytes.net/Scripts/Perl/index.phtml?page=popcheck.pl.html > well, i tried to setup mozilla for reading mail. but it only handles pop > and imap3!! > > - sandip -- Earl F Hampton http://hamiii.sytes.net/index.phtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
