On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:19:32AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote: > The other way is a neat little trick I use on my ISP account- limit the size > of messages to download, I limit them to 2000 bytes. You can try different > sizes to see what works. Then when I check mail a popup window appears > showing a list of messages, with subject lines and the senders of any > messages bigger than 2000 bytes. Then I can either leave them on the server, > delete them, or download them. I don't know if all mail clients do this, it's > worth checking out.
I use a different trick when I'm on dialup and don't want to download huge messages. I simply use mutt to access my pop mailbox. Then mutt only downloads the headers from the pop server. And then I get a list of all the messages, who they're from, what the subject is and what the size is. I can then delete whichever ones I don't want to download. After that's done I use fetchmail to retrieve the mail as I normally would. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com
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