Hi Thomas, On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 04:21:54 +0700, you wrote: > JA> Why would you have to go about converting protocols? If I remember > JA> correctly(you may want to look at the IMAP4rev1), the IMAP protocol > JA> supports the retrival 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.
It'd only require more online time if you wanted to redownload every message each time, however if you required just reading of some messages, then in general no... the one limitation with IMAP is that you have to be connected to read your mail, which is where I guess your comment about online time comes from. > JA> I know TB! IMAP support is lacking, but hopefully that'd be fixed > JA> in v2. > > I hear it will be. I cannot wait then. I use IMAP at home (I don't use Windows) all the time, and I find it very efficient for example when reading the TBUDL folder. The one issue being that you probably cannot search properly, unless IMAP servers support searching for you. > 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 > JA> idea behind IMAP). IMAP can save a lot of bandwidth as it only retrieves > JA> the headers for folder listings, and only downloads the mail when you want > JA> to read it, and if it is spam, you simply delete before retrieving the > JA> 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)? If the email is split into two parts, one of type text/plain and one of type text/html, then you'd be able to split it, but if it is formatted as only text/html, then that'd be all you can download. -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ________________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
