Re: [MLUG] pine on bengal...

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

As someone that frequently deals with gigs of mail I suggest the easiest 
method is to copy and truncate the mail spool, compress the copy, and 
ssh it out. If you don't want to try to move the whole thing as a single 
file you could use procmail to sepperate it into easier to manage pieces 
and then compress and download each piece. (This of course requires you 
do the resubmit the mail to yourself first.. which could be a pain.) If 
procmail isn't your bag then you can use something like Pine to sort the 
mail into smaller files. Or you could always use fetchmail if your idea 
of a bulk of mail is something more reasonable than my idea of a bulk of 
mail. I usually use the procmail method when my mail gets clogged up 
such that normal methods are failing to download. It's not quite as easy 
as the first method but it's less likely to lose any mail and I find the 
smaller <1GB files easier to manage. Having switched from using Mozilla 
to fetchmail for downloading mail though I rarely have that problem. I'm 
working on setting up my own mail servers which should completely remove 
the problem as mail will be completely sorted into my db on the server. :)

-- 
Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://kavlon.org

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