On Saturday, August 31, 2002, 5:33:38 PM, Jan Rifkinson wrote: > In the above scenario TB! is doing it twice. Its > a fine solution but as an academic question, I > wonder if there really are any *practical* > differences between a selective download [once > or twice] & a single download with filter > actions attached.
I think that it does take longer using selective download, but I don't think the difference is too great, because what you loose in the downloading of the headers initially, you gain by not downloading messages you don't want. Downloading the headers is a lot quicker than downloading messages, particularly over a slow connection. Databug's situation is a little different, because all of the messages are going to be downloaded anyway so the downloading of the headers is an additional overhead, but that increase in overall download time is justified by the circumstances. I use selective downloads in two specific situations - as a spam filter on an account that gets a lot of junk mail, and when I am travelling and downloading mail using my mobile phone, when I don't want to download a 500K email message unless I really need to! Julian -- Using The Bat! v1.61 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
