Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> This is incorrect. Many e-mail programs (including Outlook Express, the free > program that I use) will allow you to filter e-mail messages _before_ they are > downloaded, based only on the headers. No, POP3 doesn't allow that. Only IMAP4 and POP3EXTND would but most ISPs don't implement these protocols. So client applications adopt a conservative postion by downloading the whole message before discarding it. Give it a try. BTW Anthony, could you please consult the archives before asking questions that have been discussed so often here (holes in shutter, what is a CLA, street shooting,...) Regards, - -- Jean-Claude Berger (jcberger@jcberger.com) Systems and RDBMS consultant (MCSE) Lyon, France http://www.jcberger.com