----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guy Isabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IMail Rule for Attachment Size


> > The protocol supports telling you the size of the message prior to
> fetching
> > the message.
> >
> > -Josh
>
> Does the protocol *mandate* it? Which one? RFC 2821?

2821 is SMTP... for message retrieval you want to look at RFC 1939 which is
POP3. In RFC 1939 the protocol tells clients how big the message is. The
server knows how big it is because it's on the server. The client can tell
the server to fetch whatever messages it wants, and so a proper client would
ask only for messages that the client has found are smaller than your
threshold.

-Josh


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