> But if it is handled at the email client side, then the damage is > already done - as the email had to be retrieved off the server at > that point.
Wrong. As others have pointed out, you're seeing the limitations of Outlook more than those of IMail. Your objection to IMail--"written from a programmer's point of view and not an end user's"--would be better assigned to Outlook (except you should substitute "marketer's" for "programmer's"). A smart mail client, such as The Bat!, can perform server-side pruning of messages without taking up any extra bandwidth. It features a "dispatch mail on server" feature which solves your problem, pure and simple. Other mail clients can do the same, as well as automatically leaving large messages on the server, (and I actually believe that very old versions of OL did as well, IIRC). The POP3 verbs are there to do all of this; if Outlook doesn't use them, it's not using standards-based functions. While it would be nice if IMail had this ability, my finger stays pointed at MS. -Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
