From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1194 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adrian Aichner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: massage size limit Date: 20 Sep 2002 08:48:17 +0200 Organization: The XEmacs Project Message-ID: <4rcl9mxa.fsf@smtprelay.T-Online.De> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667982 10135 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:39:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:39:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:46 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Sender: AichnerAd@D5DC120J Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1032504491 04 3665 fmHwbp5SVA5gI 020920 06:48:11 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com Original-To: Wu XiaoGuang X-Sender: 520002458184-0001@t-dialin.net X-Face: 4[iHdXiTu\V3u[~\I)*}#kYF[-tYl3VZga/HSOP|K,{L Rtu@f0y/=O&Cu}\:~d|P$JON?pn?j,&CnPb1z#/TL9bkAJwyol&a:SvYj-VYbM=Dtxhk9 =w|R6U3_;SH&B >>>>> "Wu" == Wu XiaoGuang writes: Wu> Adrian Aichner writes: >> >>>>> "Wu" == Wu XiaoGuang writes: >> Wu> Hi, all: >> Wu> In mozilla mail, there is a choice to limit the downloaded Wu> message size, such as 20KB. If it happens to larger one, Wu> only the head of the message will be received, then if I Wu> found it useful, I could continue to download the whole Wu> message. In this way, I could avoid to download some Wu> useless messages. Is there similiar function in Gnus? >> >> Yes. I use this feature when popping mail from work to my home or >> hotel room. >> >> See pop3-maximum-message-size. >> Wu> Thank you for your reply. Wu> I set this in my ~/.gnus: Wu, please don't drop the newsgroup from your mails! Other people should benefit from our discussion too! Wu> (setq pop3-maximum-message-size "20k") You cannot use "20k", use a number instead. Use 20000 or (* 20 1024) , depending on your preference. Hope this helps, Adrian Wu> I can't find any document for the variable(I'm using emacs 21.1), so Wu> I'm not sure if my setting is right. Wu> By the way, if I meet the large message, and want to continue to Wu> download it, what key should I press? Wu> Thank you. >> I don't want to spend time waiting for mails greater than 500k. >> >> In my .gnus I have this: >> >> (defun apa-mail-configure (user smtp pop news domain pop-size) >> (setq user-mail-address (concat user "@" domain)) >> (setq message-default-headers (concat "Bcc: " (user-mail-address) "\n")) >> (setq message-default-headers >> (concat >> message-default-headers >> "X-Face: 4[iHdXiTu\\V3u[~\\I)> c/qi;YLwRmEbt8Y*=j5n(urqY@chPh@J'D\"QlqD!C8>*}#kYF[-tYl3VZga/HSOP|K,{L >> Rtu@f0y/=O&Cu}\\:~d|P$JON?pn?j,&CnPb1z#/TL9bkAJwyol&a:SvYj-VYbM=Dtxhk9 >> =w|R6U3_;SH&B> "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/ -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian@xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/