On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 5:21:14AM -0700, Dragoncrest wrote:
Is there a simple way I can get fetchmail to pull all the messages
at once, maybe dump them to a temp file (in case of system failure
or something) then process them one by one out of that file so that
I'm not sitting there with the connection open to the server for
like 20 minutes just to download 53 messages of which all but 1 are
usually spam?
FWIW, what works great for me is for fetchmail to hand the mail off
to sendmail's queue as it arrives. Then, in fetchmail's postconnect
section, I run sendmail -q to distribute the queue. It takes me
a couple of minutes to download 50 messages over a 56K line (that
rarely gets to 56K over my neighborhood's ancient copper infrastructure.)
I prefer to leave the spam in a trash file on my ISP and just
download the good stuff. I check the trash once or twice a day
to flush it, and make sure my filters haven't trapped falsely.
HTH,
Jim