Re: [opensuse] Test - Do Not Respond

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On Saturday, 2008-11-15 at 13:30 -0500, Keith B. Boykin wrote:

I assume you're talking about a POP mail server. I've seen a feature
that retrieves only headers (in Eudora, I think—it was a long time
ago), but to my knowledge there is nothing of that sort available in
KMail.

There is/was an addition to kmail, an external program: kshowmail, that did just that. It is for manual use, not automated, I think (or that's what I use it for, at least). It doesn't come in the distro nowdays (it did).


KMail _does_ have the ability to retrieve mail without deleting it from
the server. That's what I use when I want to check mail from my laptop
while out of the office (though that's not even a Linux system, let
alone KMail, but it's a common option for POP mail clients). That
option is configured in the Accounts section's Receiving tab for the
account in question. From there, click Modify and select the "Leave
fetched messages on server" check-box.

Which usually means "leave all on server", whereas Keith needs to be selective.

Thanks. That is what I have set up.
So I can't set it to only read headers that contain opensuse.org?

I believe you need a specialised downloader, that looks at the headers and download only selected emails. Something of the sort can be done by some programs that delete spam on the server, without downloading them in full, when they match certain criteria. I doubt you can adjust it for what you need. And it would work better with imap than with pop3.

Easier to create a new account, as Jerry recommended.

By the way, the header you'd need to search for is:

"X-Mailinglist: opensuse".


- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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