Dear All, Just discovered Animail today. It is wonderful, and solves a number of problems I've been contemplating for awhile.
It does, more or less, the same thing as Fetchmail, but comes with several major advantages. For one, it's easier to set up, but that's a minor issue. What's really great is that you can configure it to limit the size of file attachments. For me, that's been a big issue. During this Christmas season, one friend bought a new digital camera and proceeded to bombard me with high-resolution photos (around 11 megabytes per photo) of his family and Christmas tree. I don't have broadband, so just one photo was a 2-hour download! Another friend, who uses Windows exclusively, sent me an 8-megabyte Unix program that somebody told him was "good" though he didn't know the name of the program or what it was for. With friends like this, who needs enemies. Anyway, with Animail, this problem has disappeared. I can limit all file attachments to any size I choose, and if the attached file exceeds that size, it's automatically deleted from the mail server, so no need to download it. Superb! You can also use it to filter out (without downloading) messages from people you'd rather not hear from (perhaps after this rave, you'll use it to filter out messages from me?). I found an Animail deb package here: http://freshmeat.net/releases/102525/ and here: http://animail.sourceforge.net/ Sorry if I'm foaming at the mouth. I'll go now. regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
