[wellylug] Email retrieval from POP account - limitingdownload based on size

[Jamie Dobbs]

Doh! I didn't quite realise it would be that simple. Thanks for the advice.

- Jamie -

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From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz
[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz]On Behalf Of Stephen Judd
Sent: Monday, 28 July 2003 7:22 p.m.
To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
Subject: Re: [wellylug] Email retrieval from POP account -
limitingdownload based on size


On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 18:36, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> Is there any way that I can have fetchmail (or similar) set up to retrieve
> emails but limit the downloading of emails larger than a certain size (say
> 100K) to a set time period, for example between 1am and 6am each day?

Sure. Set up TWO cron jobs for fetchmail. One is your "daytime" one, and
will specify a max size with --limit; the other can be your "nighttime"
one with no max size specified.

cron tutorial here: http://www.webmasters-central.com/t/cron.shtml

Stephen


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