From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Dec 20 19:36:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA04486 for mobile-outgoing; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 19:36:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from bh-box31337.csh.uiuc.edu (bh-box31337.csh.uiuc.edu [130.126.80.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA04480 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 19:36:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bradley@dunn.org) Received: from localhost (bradley@localhost) by bh-box31337.csh.uiuc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA02935; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 22:32:08 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: bh-box31337.csh.uiuc.edu: bradley owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 22:32:07 -0500 (EST) From: Bradley Dunn X-Sender: bradley@bh-box31337.csh.uiuc.edu To: John Robert LoVerso cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail Question In-Reply-To: <199712210240.VAA06581@loverso.southborough.ma.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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