One case where your proposal is HARD to follow is mine : a corporate mailbox within Lotus Notes w/ a fixed 50 Mb limit. **Fixed** means exactly that - you don't get to do ANYTHING with your mail until AFTER you've relieved the mbox. So I have to act preventively, that's why --nomail-- is very handy to not let her fill up.
Understood. Perhaps, since you have a Fedora box, you could use fetchmail to grab all your mail every five minutes or so, then process it at your leisure once it is on your personal 40GB mailbox? :-)
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx