On Mon, 08 Jul 2002 11:54:50 -0400 Ken Hornstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I had hoped to see APOP in this list among other things > > Well ... shoot. I was under the impression that APOP is on it's way out > to be replaced by the CRAM-MD5 mechanism that SASL uses. But I just > checked, and it seems like you can enable APOP already with --enable-apop. > So that's a non-issue, I think. > > >and the ability to download only headers of messages in order > >to be able to delete only the message that we don't want (AntiSPAM > >like , well it is more like anti download huges unwanted files ) > > That's more of a protocol issue. It's not easy to do that within the > context of POP. It _is_ possible just to get the headers within POP > .... and I suppose inc could be changed to just retrieve the headers and > make some sort of decision about whether to download the whole message > or just delete it. But _that_ work would be complex. Feel free > to send patches :-) > > --Ken > There are tons of software that let you do this on the net, I don't believe it is so hard to do , however this would certainly require to create a new command in nmh and the addition of a few new options in the existing commands However at the protocol level (POP3) everything already exists. It is too bad I am not a programmer , so I can't help you with the task. I am just a lowly user :) > -- -- =============================================================== Christophe Prevotaux Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HEXANET SARL URL: http://www.hexanet.fr/ Z.A.C Les Charmilles Tel: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 05 3 All�e Thierry Sabine Direct: +33 (0)3 26 61 77 72 BP202 Fax: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 06 51686 Reims Cedex 2 FRANCE HEXANET Network Operation Center ===============================================================
