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Re: mutt / fetchmail mail size limit



Hi,

* Daniel Hertrich <daniel.hertrich@xxxxxx> [25-09-2005 15:37]:

> since i use a mutt / fetchmail / procmail / msmtp system on 
> a mobile device (Sharp Zaurus PDA) which is offline most of 
> the times, and if I connect to the Internet I sometimes do 
> it with a mobile phone (slow and expensive) I'd like to have 
> fetchmail only download messages up to size = x kb and in 
> mutt I'd like to see the mail headers of the mails which are 
> > x kb  and decide if it 
> should be downloaded entirely or deleted on the next online 
> run via a keystroke.
> 
> Is something like that possible? If yes, how can it be done?

For the mutt part, you should be able to 'l'imit the view of a mailbox
to mails that are larger than a certain amount (see the ~z pattern in
section 4.2 of the manual).

I don't know about fetchmail.

HTH,

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