🚀 go-pugleaf

Paul Copsey <paulc@hectortd.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 05:34:44 +0000 (GMT),
> Terrance Richard Boyes <tez@pierrot.co.uk> wrote:
>> Paul Copsey <paulc@hectortd.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> 
>> also said that with this setup he can have mail only for "angus"
>> which would suggest GetMail not smtpd as the latter doesn't have
>> any way to reject mail (well it does but it's actually done after
>> the mail has been downloaded as a call from rmail and a checkuser
>> script, none of which is a standard setup).

> I thought one of the GW ones had killfiles in there but not enabled, and he
> told you how? 

You can killfile, but it's on sender rather than recipient.

>> As for speed GetMail itself is not slow, it can certainly keep up with
>> any kind of dialup speed.

> I have some memory of something being slow, possibly long emails, but it's
> been so long since I used it my memory of it is fading.

Ah, there was a minor issue with some very early versions. Originally
it was holding a copy of the current email in an array /and/ writing
it to disk. The version held in the array was never actually used,
and ARexx's handling of such arrays is pretty inefficient anyway...

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