Obviously the gentleman didn't mean to send a 1.7MB email to the whole SuSE news group. My question is, is there some option in fetchmail that would prevent the download of messages, say over 10K (arbitrary), and leave them on my ISP's server until I have the time to download them on my 56K dialup connection? Some sort of "download small, leave big" option? --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: SuSE Linux 7.0 Professional -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Hi, On Fri, Sep 29 2000 at 12:53 -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
Obviously the gentleman didn't mean to send a 1.7MB email to the whole SuSE news group. My question is, is there some option in fetchmail that would prevent the download of messages, say over 10K (arbitrary), and leave them on my ISP's server until I have the time to download them on my 56K dialup connection? Some sort of "download small, leave big" option?
There is one. And guess what -- it's even mentioned in the fine manual :-) `fetchmail -l 10240' will leave everything > 10K on the server. Ciao, Stefan -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Stefan Troeger wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 29 2000 at 12:53 -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
Obviously the gentleman didn't mean to send a 1.7MB email to the whole SuSE news group. My question is, is there some option in fetchmail that would prevent the download of messages, say over 10K (arbitrary), and leave them on my ISP's server until I have the time to download them on my 56K dialup connection? Some sort of "download small, leave big" option?
There is one. And guess what -- it's even mentioned in the fine manual :-) `fetchmail -l 10240' will leave everything > 10K on the server.
Ciao, Stefan
Hi Stefan, ame person next (stupid?) question. How do I learn that fechmail "left" a message on the server? Will it be in the logs? ( = fetchmails output to the screen diverted to a file). I mean, I do not want to collect big messages on my ISP's server for good. Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Hi, On Fri, Sep 29 2000 at 23:55 +0200, juergen.braukmann@ruhr-west.de wrote:
same person next (stupid?) question. How do I learn that fechmail "left" a message on the server? Will it be in the logs? ( = fetchmails output to the screen diverted to a file). I mean, I do not want to collect big messages on my ISP's server for good.
Fetchmail tells you that it left mail on the server: [sttr]/home/sttr> fetchmail -c 2 messages for xxx at yyy (4835 octets). [sttr]/home/sttr> fetchmail -l 1000 2 messages for xxx at yyy (4835 octets). skipping message 1 (oversized, 2117 octets) not flushed skipping message 2 (oversized, 2718 octets) not flushed Ciao, Stefan -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Stefan Troeger wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 29 2000 at 23:55 +0200, juergen.braukmann@ruhr-west.de wrote:
same person next (stupid?) question. How do I learn that fechmail "left" a message on the server? Will it be in the logs? ( = fetchmails output to the screen diverted to a file). I mean, I do not want to collect big messages on my ISP's server for good.
Fetchmail tells you that it left mail on the server:
[sttr]/home/sttr> fetchmail -c 2 messages for xxx at yyy (4835 octets).
[sttr]/home/sttr> fetchmail -l 1000 2 messages for xxx at yyy (4835 octets). skipping message 1 (oversized, 2117 octets) not flushed skipping message 2 (oversized, 2718 octets) not flushed
Ciao, Stefan
Thanks. ;-) I need to think a bit. And experiment a bit too. Trouble is that I do not watch my fetchmail output. But I could add something like fetchmail -c|mail brauki into my ip-up script and fetch the mail prior to that. There is room for some additional experiments now. ;-) Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Hi, On Sat, Sep 30 2000 at 10:48 +0200, juergen.braukmann@ruhr-west.de wrote:
I need to think a bit. And experiment a bit too. Trouble is that I do not watch my fetchmail output. But I could add something like fetchmail -c|mail brauki
Probably something like fetchmail -l 10240 |grep -q skipping && echo |mail -s \ "fetchmail has left mail on the server" brauki Ciao, Stefan -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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cwaiken@telerama.com
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juergen.braukmann@ruhr-west.de
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stefan.troeger@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de