On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > > I have managed to get my low-speed ppp connection (about 6k max) > > running. The connection itself is stable, but text sessions are not; > > they seem to hang. So netscape and ftp (other than to the ppp host) > > work, but xterm, rsh, etc. do not. IRC in the client is stable, but > > running it in a window on the host hangs. > > > > The host is also my regular machine, where my mail lives. > > > > I need to get at my mail, without transferring it all (the digests > > would take several minutes, and several of my mailing list I only read > > small parts of. > > > > So what I need is something that will get at my mail on the host, while > > running on the laptop/client, but leave the mail on the host, > > transferring only the subject/author unless i choose to read a message. > > > > It would be even nicer if it could use the folders and .maildelivery > > from exmh, but i can live with everything living in inbox > > > > rick > > > > -- > > > > > FWIW: fetchmail is a pop3 client that can download from the isp > without deleting. It has an option to control that behavior.
Also it does not have the capability to transfer just the subject/author, but it can be set to limit the maximum message size transferred, which would probably be helpful with a slow connection. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
