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From: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
Subject: Re: Adding function to pop3.el, and calling a backend from elsewhere
Date: 04 Apr 1997 08:06:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <whd8sbwcd5.fsf@norne.metis.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of 03 Apr 1997 16:36:17 -0500

>>>>> Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>:

SB> iv. *can* pop3-retrieve-headers be added to pop3.el?

> Certainly it could... unfortunately there is no standard POP3 command to do
> so.  There is TOP, but it is not part of the core protocol, not all servers
> will implement it, and it does not retrive headers but the first <n> lines
> of the message starting with the headers.

	TOP msg 0
retrives the headers on the UoW POP3 daemon.  
	TOP msg n
seems to take the headers, and then the first n lines of the message. 


  reply	other threads:[~1997-04-04  6:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-04-03 18:47 Steinar Bang
1997-04-03 19:42 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-04-03 21:36 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1997-04-04  6:06   ` Steinar Bang [this message]
1997-04-04 16:57     ` Stainless Steel Rat
1997-04-04 18:00       ` Steinar Bang
1997-04-04 23:06         ` Stainless Steel Rat

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