[Techtalk] delete mail from the server

Noir acknak_halflife at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Dec 30 19:51:58 EST 2003


On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:45:11PM +1100, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 December 2003 23:16, Noir wrote:
> > I use fetchmail to get mail from the server. I was wondering if there's any
> > option in fetchmail which will not download & delete mails that will exceed
> > certain size limit say, 20K.
> >
> > I have gone through the man page but have found no explicit switch as
> > such.
> 
> You probably just missed reading it.
> 
> From the man page-
> 
>        Here are the legal user options:
> 
>        Keyword            Opt   Function
>        ------------------------------------------------------------
> ...
>        limit              -l    Set message size limit

Thanks. But that doesn't _delete_ the mail from the server it only keeps
from d.loading it.


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