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>>>>> 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.