> You could always download the headers of all messages without
> downloading
> the bodies. (The pop3 TOP command sends the message header along
> with the
> first n (specified) lines of the message - if specified as 0, only
> the
> header is sent.)
This is actually not too difficult to do from QL platforms with TCP/IP
support. Last year I downloaded some documents describing email
protocols etc and decided this would be quite feasible to write in
straightforward basic, unfortunately between lack of time, changing
jobs and the fact that soql was never fully finished I didn't actually
get around to that simple mailer core program I intended to do at the
time.
Although I could never write a full featured program like teams of
programmers on other platforms do, it would have had the advantage of
being written myself, so I could make it do whatever I wanted (and was
capable of writing!) and one of the things I wanted was to write
something which would give me a list of emails so I could choose what
I wanted to download at what time. The main thing for me was not to
download files more than a given length unless I was on cheap rate
dialup (the Welsh are cousins of the Scots when it comes to spending
you know!), but it might not have been much more difficult to build in
something like IF ("viagra" INSTR subject$) OR ("v1agra" INSTR
subject$) THEN Delete_From_Server type of code. I've forgotten exactly
what the code would have looked like but you get the main idea.
Jonathan Hudson, Jon Dent, Richard Zidlicky and Marcel gave example of
quite straightforward code to handle simple emailing etc, once you
understand the protocols it's not beyond the average programmer at
all.
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Dilwyn Jones
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