Hello
On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 23:06 +0200, Derk Jan & Harriet Poel wrote:
> hi there,
>
> evolution is a great mailer, but (there always is a but huh?! :-) ) I
> cant use it because it does not have a download size filter (a filter
> that prevents auto downloading of large emails).
> I am a dial up user and because of that I need to be able to
> selectively download larger emails. I can not imagine that I am the
> only gnome dial up user on the planet that would be interested in such
> a feature, am I!?
Tough luck . Mail attached .
>
> Can anybody tell me if Evo will get some kind of server side
> filtering on email sizes in the near future? I did not find in the new
> gnome roadmap :(
> I really enjoy Gnome and Evo, but this email filtering on size that is
> missing in evolution is really blocking me from using it.
>
> In our sister desktop the way it is implemented in Kmail is really
> cool (sorry, but it is)! They show a window with a list of headers of
> only those emails that are larger than a configurable size and per
> email you can then select: download, delete or leave on server.
> There is a (much) less sophisticated way in Thunderbird where only
> part of the email is downloaded and there is some standard text and a
> link in the email that, when clicked on, retrieves the rest of the
> mail. This would work as long as it downloads at least all of the
> text... which it does not do in Thunderbird...
>
> This is something i really miss in Evo! Am I the only one?!
>
> So (for now) Thunderbird is my only option. Please, would it be
> possible to add this feature in Evo in (one of) the next release(s)?
>
> Thanx for your your great work sofar and for your reply.
>
> deech - a hoping-to-be-using-evo-soon gnome fan!
>
> Maseru, Lesotho
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Hi,
On 4/3/07, Ritesh Khadgaray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Heya,
>
> On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 23:38 +0200, Derk Jan & Harriet Poel wrote:
> > hi
> >
> > can anyway tell me if evolution has a download size filter like kmail
> > or thunderbird (to prevent downloading of large emails)?
> > I am a gnome dial up user and I need to be able to selectively
> > download larger emails.
> >
> > I found the size filter in"Edit - Message Filters - Add" but this mail
> > size filter here only applies to email already downloaded to the pc.
> > Then you can apply filter rules based on size....
>
> Found any answer ?
> I'am on dial-up ( edge/gprs ) for next one week :)
>
I'm on GPRS all the time, and was hit by this issue for a very long
time now. So thought of doing something about it. I've captured the
steps in the following article:
http://www.srinidhi-is.in/wiki/PoppingGmailWithFetchmailAndEvolution
Hope this helps in someway. Please let me know your comments and
suggestions in improving the above article.
Thanks,
Srinidhi.
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