Well, it does download it, there's no other way to read a message in the POP3 RFC. What it doesn't do that most have their clients set to do is to delete the message after it's retrieved it. You can set MS Outlook to not delete a message from the server, for instance, and accomplish the same thing. The only problem with this, that I can find, is that once you've had one copy of an email downloaded locally it's not easy to get OE to download it again due to the fact that OE stores the UID# of the email message. Over the course of writing a POP3 transport script I've learned just about anything you could want to know about the protocol. If anyone has any questions I'd be glad to answer them or even share the RFC with you. Regards, Greg Mosier -----Original Message----- From: Bowie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 6:32 PM Subject: [pop3] Popcorn E-mail client/server application >Popcorn is a freeware ultra-lightweight POP3/SMTP e-mail client, >free from unwanted and useless bloatware features. Being a true >client/server application, it does not work in the same way as a >typical mail program. This means that you're reading mail from a >POP3 server directly, without downloading it to a local mailbox on >your PC (although you can save mail messages locally if you want to). >This makes it ideally suited for "on the road" mail access, and for >scanning, reading and sending mail over slow internet connections. > >http://www.ultrafunk.com/products/popcorn/ > >Robin > > > >
