Re: [fetchmail-users] Bug#416282: Fetchmail oversized-messages warning could say more

[Michelle K. <lin...@fr...>]

Hello Nico and Dan,

a copy of this message goes directly to the <fetchmail> list
since I find, it is a realy good thing to have it availlable.

Am 2007-03-26 19:43:28, schrieb Nico Golde:
> Hi,
> * Dan Jacobson <ji...@ji...> [2007-03-26 19:03]:
> > Package: fetchmail
> > Version: 6.3.6-1
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > Can't it give some hint about the sender, subject or something? Else
> > one often has to dialup one's modem another time just to find out.
> 
> You also have to if you want to download it.
> I don't see a real need for it. Let's assume you expect an 
> important mail by someone and you want to download it if you 
> get it. So with the sender address you can see it's the 
> important mail. Another user wants different information and 
> another a different information again. To make everyone 
> happy you can just download it...
> Kind regards
> Nico

Good E-Mail programs under Windows (YES), like Eudora, have a size-limit
function too.  If a Mail is bigger as the given value, the E-Mail-Program
download ONLY the Header and Add a text to it which telle the usr that
the Message had exceeded the fetchsize limit and show the real size.

So in fetchmail they can add something like:

----8<-----------------------------------------------------------------
From: Michelle Konzack <lin...@fr...>
To: Nico Golde <ni...@ng...>, 41...@bu...
Subject: Re: Bug#416282: Fetchmail oversized-messages warning could say more
Date: ....

!!! FETCHMAIL SIZE LIMIT WARNING !!!

The original messages exceeded the configured fetch size of
10 kBytes and was not downloaded.  If you want to download it,
please use fetchmail manualy with the option "--limit 0".

----8<-----------------------------------------------------------------


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    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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