On 20-Aug-00, Tony Rolfe wrote:
> How about the Mail Download Manager having the ability to list
> attachments. Then I could delete the junk and download the rest.
> Of course, the ability to download only some of the attachments of one
> message would be a bonus.
>
> Any one else like the idea?
There simply is no such thing as an attachment in email the way it is
done in Fidonet. The so-called attachments in email are encoded and
imbedded in the email as plain text. There's no way any mail server is
going to ever read your email to see what it contains, much less
decode it for you and somehow send you the files it may contain.
The world lost it's chance by adopting SMTP and POP3 instead of the
elegant and efficient file transfer method of Fidonet and Z-Modem. And
there is no turning back the clock to try it again.
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