Hello Jonathan, On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 10:39:59 -0500 GMT (17/08/02, 22:39 +0700 GMT), Jonathan Angliss wrote:
JA> Why would you have to go about converting protocols? If I remember correctly JA> (you may want to look at the IMAP4rev1), the IMAP protocol supports the retrival JA> of partial bodies of messages. I haven't gone nto IMAP yet, but I did think we were talking about POP. The reason is that on a dial-up account, IMAP (if I understand it correctly) might require more online time. JA> I know TB! IMAP support is lacking, but hopefully that'd be fixed JA> in v2. I hear it will be. JA> Here is a snippet from the IMAP4rev1 RFC 2060: [...] JA> I may have miss-understood that, but to me it reads that you can download JA> selected portitions of the mail if and when needed (which is the whole idea JA> behind IMAP). IMAP can save a lot of bandwidth as it only retrieves the headers JA> for folder listings, and only downloads the mail when you want to read it, and JA> if it is spam, you simply delete before retrieving the rest of the body ;) That's how I read it too, but can it download only the plain-text part of an HTML message (if sent as alternative) or convert to plain text (if sent as html only)? -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at bowling alleys. Message reply created with The Bat! 1.62/Beta1 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
