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Re: mutt / fetchmail mail size limit



Daniel Hertrich <daniel.hertrich@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 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).
> 
> Thanks, but makes no sense for me, since if the large mail are in the mutt
> mailbox already, it should also be displayed everything.
> The point is to save money and time by limiting the download of large mails.

getmail trivially supports limiting retrieved messages by maximum size.
Consider using it instead of fetchmail; you can find it at the site in my
.sig.

Charles
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