On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Heikki Toivonen wrote: > The thing that unfortunately forces body downloads is spam filtering. > Without downloading the body most spam filters won't do a good job. I > guess the best of both worlds is to download and display headers first > to get fast response, then download bodies in the background to enable > spam filtering.
Heikki, My sense is that small businesses or workgroups may filter spam on the client, but most enterprises filter spam on the server side (or before the email gets to the server). However, I agree that even in the enterprise context there is work to be done to allow user classification to a message to be efficiently incorporated into the scanning rules, wherever they are implemented. Since I am personally very sensitive to any added latency in my core work activity (email processing :) and we have decent server-side spam filtering where I work, I would not use a tool that downloads everything... Just one data point. -teg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
