Thanks for the heads-up, Joshua. I read RFC 1939 and, of course, you are right. (Time for me to join AA...)
With apologies, Guy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Levitsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 20:40 Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IMail Rule for Attachment Size > > ----- 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 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/
