[pmmail-list] Download progress meter?

[Rod... Whitworth]

On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:08:43 +0000, jay gee wrote:

>Having a simple kill/delete download switch to eradicate
>unsolicited file attachments is a much more helpful
>solution and a nice feature.

The word "attachment" is misleading.

A message with "attachments" is indistinguishable from a large message without 
because both are just one text file.

The MUA you use (in this case PMM) looks for the boundaries between the sections 
and shows the appropriately decoded bits to you as if they were files. They are 
not.

Get a message with attachments into your inbox and go look at it with a file 
browser and you will see what I mean.

As a result the pop3 protocol has no way to get you the message without the 
attachment(s).

A good reference is "Internet Email Protocols" by Kevin Johnson pub Addison 
Wesley. ISBN 0-201-43288-9
 Hope this clarifies it a bit.

In the beginning was The Word
and The Word was Content-type: text/plain
The Word of Rod.




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