Re: massage size limit

Re: massage size limit

[Adrian Aichner]

>>>>> "Wu" == Wu XiaoGuang <woohsiaokuang@yahoo.com.cn> writes:

    Wu> Adrian Aichner <adrian@xemacs.org> writes:
    >> >>>>> "Wu" == Wu XiaoGuang <woohsiaokuang@yahoo.com.cn> writes:
    >> 
    Wu> Hi, all:
    >> 
    Wu> In mozilla mail, there is a choice to limit the downloaded
    Wu> message size, such as 20KB. If it happens to larger one,
    Wu> only the head of the message will be received, then if I
    Wu> found it useful, I could continue to download the whole
    Wu> message. In this way, I could avoid to download some
    Wu> useless messages.  Is there similiar function in Gnus?
    >> 
    >> Yes.  I use this feature when popping mail from work to my home or
    >> hotel room.
    >> 
    >> See pop3-maximum-message-size.
    >> 

    Wu> Thank you for your reply.
    Wu> I set this in my ~/.gnus:

Wu, please don't drop the newsgroup from your mails!

Other people should benefit from our discussion too!

    Wu>    (setq pop3-maximum-message-size "20k")

You cannot use "20k", use a number instead.

Use
20000
 or
(* 20 1024)
, depending on your preference.

Hope this helps,

Adrian

    Wu> I can't find any document for the variable(I'm using emacs 21.1), so
    Wu> I'm not sure if my setting is right.

    Wu> By the way, if I meet the large message, and want to continue to
    Wu> download it, what key should I press?

    Wu> Thank you.

    >> I don't want to spend time waiting for mails greater than 500k.
    >> 
    >> In my .gnus I have this:
    >> 
    >> (defun apa-mail-configure (user smtp pop news domain pop-size)
    >> (setq user-mail-address (concat user "@" domain))
    >> (setq message-default-headers (concat "Bcc: " (user-mail-address) "\n"))
    >> (setq message-default-headers
    >> (concat
    >> message-default-headers
    >> "X-Face: 4[iHdXiTu\\V3u[~\\I)<f9HC);%~nG8`oUqv#uzvs6=\\V{AjN6Sn
    >> c/qi;YLwRmEbt8Y*=j5n(urqY@chPh@J'D\"QlqD!C8>*}#kYF[-tYl3VZga/HSOP|K,{L
    >> Rtu@f0y/=O&Cu}\\:~d|P$JON?pn?j,&CnPb1z#/TL9bkAJwyol&a:SvYj-VYbM=Dtxhk9
    >> =w|R6U3_;SH&B<Mfy6Q%#\n"
    >> "X-Attribution: APA\n"))
    >> (setq mail-default-headers message-default-headers)
    >> (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-news 120 60)
    >> (setq smtpmail-smtp-server (concat smtp "." domain))
    >> (setq smtpmail-local-domain domain)
    >> (setq mail-host-address smtpmail-smtp-server)
    >> (setq pop3-maximum-message-size pop-size)
    >> (setq mail-sources
    >> (list (list 'pop :server (concat pop "." domain)
    >> :user user
    >> :port "pop3")
    >> ))
    >> ; As of 2001-09-03 I get this in Gnus:
    >> ; Opening nntp server on news...
    >> ; Cannot read partial active file from nntp server.
    >> ; Reading active file via nnml...
    >> (setq gnus-select-method
    >> (list 'nntp
    >> (if (string-equal news "")
    >> ""
    >> (concat news "." domain)))))
    >> 
    >> Hope this helps,
    >> 
    >> Adrian
    >> 
    Wu> Thank you.
    >> 
    >> 
    >> -- 
    >> Adrian Aichner
    >> mailto:adrian@xemacs.org
    >> http://www.xemacs.org/



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