You probebly mean a program that download only the e-mail's header..
I think mutt / pine can do that but you'l need to check thier configution
to be sure...
Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
| I sow little program in Winblow that can see what mail you have without
| downloading it and erase what ever you don't want to read.
|
| Does Linux have something like this ?
|
| Herouth Maoz wrote:
|
| > At 19:07 +0200 5/1/2000, Moran wrote:
| > >but, if i dont want stay in the mailing list and you will block access for
| > >who isnt in the mailing-list we actually didnt do anything by having
| > >newsgroup.
| >
| > Actually, what you describe is easily solvable in two ways - speaking as an
| > experienced list manager (of another list, naturally).
| >
| > If you don't want to get the e-mail but you want to browse the messages
| > that were in the list today, you can use the list's archive. It's better to
| > have a nice archive with good interface, of course, but most web-based
| > archives are good enough.
| >
| > Otherwise, if you want to have the list and post from time to time, there
| > are a few possible solutions.
| >
| > (1) Be subscribed to the list, but put yourself in suspended mode.
| > Most list servers have a way for a subscriber to suspend himself
| > or herself. The original reason is to enable people to go on
| > vacation without the whole procedure of unsubscribing and
| > re-subscribing. However, this mode normally allows you to post
| > to the list without actually receiving the messages. So you can
| > read it on the archive or on a one-way newsgroup, but still
| > have your posting privileges.
| >
| > (2) The Postgres mailing lists, if I'm not mistaken, have a special
| > address, which is not an actual list, where you subscribe
| > yourself, and it allows you to post on any of their lists. This
| > usually prevents casual spammers. This requires that the list
| > server will have this capability, of course.
| >
| > Personally, I would prefer that the lists I'm on will not be on usenet. At
| > least, not on the mainstream servers. Usenet is the number one spot for
| > harvesting addresses for spam. Right now, I get less than one spam per day,
| > without any special procmailfiltering. I'd like to keep it that way.
| >
| > Herouth
| >
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