On 10-Jul-2003/08:13 +0800, Edward Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The inbox at my ISP has been flooded with e-mails. All 300-900Kb big, no >subject line, no from line. After talks with my ISP, we have determined >who they come from, but I'm having trouble contacting them. Legit e-mail >due to this can take forever to download, as fetchmail is also >collecting the crap. > >I'm thinking of running mailfilter to delete these at the ISP before >they hit my server inbox (I use fetchmail, hence I intend to introduce >the pre-connect feature).
If I'm reading the manpage correctly, preconnect is done at the beginning of a fetchmail session, not at the beginning of each message fetch. You might look at the --limit option. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
