Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 22:32:07 -0500 (EST) From: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org> To: John Robert LoVerso <john@loverso.southborough.ma.us> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971220223108.2879A-100000@bh-box31337.csh.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <199712210240.VAA06581@loverso.southborough.ma.us>
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On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, John Robert LoVerso wrote: > > Another good thing about IMAP is that you don't have to download a message > > if you can tell from the headers that don't want to read it. > > IMAP has several features that POP doesn't. This isn't one of them. Sorry. Read RFC 2060. Specifically: 2.4. Message Texts In addition to being able to fetch the full [RFC-822] text of a message, IMAP4rev1 permits the fetching of portions of the full message text. Specifically, it is possible to fetch the [RFC-822] message header, [RFC-822] message body, a [MIME-IMB] body part, or a [MIME-IMB] header. Bradley
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