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From: Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>
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Subject: Re: Adding function to pop3.el, and calling a backend from elsewhere
Date: 04 Apr 1997 11:57:24 -0500
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>>>>> "SB" == Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

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

Implementation of TOP is, at best, inconsistant, if it exists at all. UoW
may implement it but not all servers will.

Really, this is the kind of thing you would want to do with an IMAP server.
Unlike POP, IMAP was designed for this kind of thing.

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