On Sunday 21 September 2003 14:18, Carla Schroder wrote: > On Saturday 20 September 2003 2:27 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > The other way is a neat little trick I use on my ISP account- limit > > > the size of messages to download, I limit them to 2000 bytes. You can > > > try different sizes to see what works. Then when I check mail a popup > > > window appears showing a list of messages, with subject lines and the > > > senders of any messages bigger than 2000 bytes. Then I can either leave > > > them on the server, delete them, or download them. I don't know if all > > > mail clients do this, it's worth checking out.
I have that neat trick in use on my 'other PC', an old Acorn A5000 with an antique program called 'Popstar'. It's the only thing that makes my account useable with a 9600 modem when a Klez virus arrives with a 100K+ file attachment in tow.... > > > > Well that's sweet. > > > > I see that you use KMail. Is it KMail that gives you this capability? > > Yes, and I'm pretty sure Evolution, Outlook, eudora, and other major mail > clients can do it too. I love Kmail, it's extremely configurable and > reliable. I love Kmail too, but I'm running 1.3.2 (the version that comes with Woody) and I'm not sure it offers that facility. I believe the newest version does, but when I installed it briefly (with RedHat 9, before I switched to Debian) it warned me that deleted messages really were deleted, they don't go to Trash anymore. If that's true, I couldn't live with that, since I'm forever fishing messages back out of Trash for another look. cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
