Carl Zwanzig wrote: > >It might be easier to achieve with user education. Many 'modern' mail >clients can be configured to automatically (or not) download attachments and >whether (or not) to display images. I know Thunderbird does this, and IIRC >outlook will, too.
If you really mean 'attachments' and not just things like remote images linked from HTML message parts, this would require IMAP access to the mail server. POP3 protocol only has the TOP command for retrieving partial messages and all it can do is retrieve the headers and the first n body lines (body in the RFC 822 sense where the body includes all the MIME headers, boundaries, etc.). Further, most POP clients just retrieve all new messages on the server in their entirety when asked to 'check mail'. And even with IMAP, it seems that at least Thunderbird with it's new 3.0 'Synchronize IMAP Messages' feature is moving towards unconditionally downloading all messages in their entirety. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
