Tom : -
You may use something else, but the big success is that I've persuaded
my isp to believe that the 16Mb email which kept appearing as not
flushed (because I'd set a limit to the size of emails to here, so as to
stop it downloading all the time) has in fact had the necessary
attention from me, so its just been flushed (after about two months on
the server) without my having to download it.
The trick I devised after reading the manpage is to poff at the stage
where the relevant isp is starting to say what's happening there. This
gives the server the notion that the download has sort-of-happened.
Changing the fetchmail command by omitting the -a (all) and adding -F
(flush) and running fetchmail again seemed to complete the
clearance. Of course it wouldn't work so easily if mail were coming in
all the time and I must remember to change the fetchmail batchfile to
what it was before.
I lost another oversize one which I probably won't miss, but it would
have been better to start its download first to see who it was from,
before poffing if I didn't like it (a slow machine would help with such
activities).
See you tomorrow and your nice new monitor if your luck has been good?
Pat
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