[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#416282: Fetchmail oversized-messages warning could say more

[Matthias Andree]

Dan Jacobson <jidanni at jidanni.org> writes:

> Package: fetchmail
> Version: 6.3.6-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Can't it give some hint about the sender, subject or something? Else
> one often has to dialup one's modem another time just to find out.

Word it positively: "Could it give..."

Basically, with POP3, it can't at this time, and that's a feature the
6.3 versions aren't going to see.

Reason #1: The size is available in POP3 without looking at the message or
headers at all.

Reason #2: Being able to download the header alone ("TOP" command in
RFC-1939) is an /optional/ server feature.

Bottom line: "it could on some servers, at additional download time, if
someone had written the code".

Sorry, perhaps in a later release.

-- 
Matthias Andree