Re: FYI: Fetchmail saves the day!

From: Floyd Davidson (floyd_at_barrow.com)
Date: 09/20/03 

Date: 19 Sep 2003 15:59:12 -0800

Dave Uhring <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:47:38 -0400, Rod Smith wrote:
>
>> So, does anybody have any pointers to something that I can run before
>> using fetchmail to grab my mail that'll download headers and delete all
>> the messages that match some simple criterion? I've heard of such
>> programs for Windows or integrated into mail readers, but I don't know of
>> anything that'll work as a standalone tool that could be called before
>> fetchmail. Any pointers?
>
>telnet pop.cox.com 110
>user rodsmith
>pass password
>list
>
>+OK 1 messages
>1 147152
>dele 1
>
>If the message is 145KB or so it is one of those MS crap things.

Well, yeah but... I've gotten roughly 5000 emails in the past
36 hours or so, and I just didn't see either download them or
manually deleting them as a potential way to spend the next week
or two!

I let it build up to something like 4500 message, and 600 Mb of
email by just shutting off fetchmail's access to the account
that is being hit. I was wondering if the ISP had a reasonable
limit, and apparently they don't!

Then I modified my fetchmailrc file to have these options turned
on: fetchall, expunge 10, nokeep, and limit 1200.

I then manually invoked "fetchmail -v -v" twice and let it show
me what it was doing. That allowed it to download every email
that was smaller than 1200 bytes in size. Then I invoked it
again as "fetchmail -v -v -F", and it proceeded to slowly but
surely delete, rather than download, 4500 email messages. 

-- 
Floyd L. Davidson           <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)                         floyd@barrow.com

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