Ralph Seichter <ralph(_at_)seichter(_dot_)de>:
It wouldn't. If you're so worried about bandwidth charges that
you're refusing oversized messages, you're not running in daemon
mode anyway because
Sorry for quoting elaborately, but I don't get the meaning of your
second sentence. Is there something missing after "because"?
I meant to remove that " because" and put a period there.
In any case, you may not need to worry about wasted bandwidth, but
there are still people who do. I can't quite understand why features
which existed in previous fetchmail versions are targeted for
removal even if this means a decrease in fetchmail's usefulness.
Because they're unnecessary and tempt people to abuse the program, and
then to put pressure on me to "fix" things when their abuse backfires.
You still haven't explained to me why --limit is necessary.
Well, the fetchmail implementation is old enough and stiff enough to
make introducing new features problematic.
This is also true for removing existing features, isn't it? ;-)
No.
It needs a thorough rewrite and refactoring, really.
Is this something you consider doing?
Yes.
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