mail-source: selective download?

mail-source: selective download?

[Jack Vinson]

Is there any way to set up mail retrieval so that I Gnus only downloads
those messages which match a specific criteria?  I would like to read some
e-mail from home, but downloading all of the Ding mail is a little slow.
Ideally, there would be some filter that just tells Gnus to leave Ding (and
other) mail on the server until some later date.

Thanks,

Jack

Re: mail-source: selective download?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Jack Vinson <jvinson@chevax.ecs.umass.edu> writes:

> Is there any way to set up mail retrieval so that I Gnus only downloads
> those messages which match a specific criteria?  I would like to read some
> e-mail from home, but downloading all of the Ding mail is a little slow.
> Ideally, there would be some filter that just tells Gnus to leave Ding (and
> other) mail on the server until some later date.

I don't see how.  Well, unless you're using IMAP, in which case it's
easy enough, since you don't download any mail.  :-)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: mail-source: selective download?

[Jack Vinson]

>>>>> "JV" == Jack Vinson <jvinson@chevax.ecs.umass.edu> writes:

JV> Is there any way to set up mail retrieval so that I Gnus only downloads
JV> those messages which match a specific criteria?  I would like to read some
JV> e-mail from home, but downloading all of the Ding mail is a little slow.
JV> Ideally, there would be some filter that just tells Gnus to leave Ding (and
JV> other) mail on the server until some later date.

I have, of course, discovered the best way to do this: multiple e-mail
accounts and mail-sources.  Unfortunately, not everyone can have several
accounts.  I now have my busy mail lists going to one account, while all
other mail goes to another.  If I read from home, I just read the mail from
the second account.  Perfect.

-- 
Jack