On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 07:17:58AM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > What is the point of getting digests? Filters put the messages in a > folder, so there's no mail organization issue. Since I'm going to read > them when I get ready, I don't care if they're downloaded a few at a time > or all at once. Well, I agree there's no good reason to get digests if you're going to burst them anyway. But I have a dialup connection and I'm on several mailing lists, and I don't like fetchmail or fetchyahoo or whatever telling me "114 messages..." and then proceed to download and purge them from the server, one by one. I'd rather download a couple of digests and burst them here. It just seems faster and (I'm guessing) less resource intensive for the maillist servers and mailservers involved.
Plus it's part of my ultra-keen mailsorting setup. Procmail, sendmail, mutt, mailstat, spamassasin, vipul's razor, etc., are just plain fun to fool around with, as a matter of principle. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
