Hi, Mark.
Thanks for your really helpful replies to my posts. On 1/1/10 12:43 PM, "Mark Sapiro" <m...@msapiro.net> wrote: > Carl Zwanzig wrote: >> >> It might be easier to achieve with user education. Many 'modern' mail >> clients can be configured to automatically (or not) download attachments and >> whether (or not) to display images. I know Thunderbird does this, and IIRC >> outlook will, too. > > > If you really mean 'attachments' and not just things like remote images > linked from HTML message parts, this would require IMAP access to the > mail server. POP3 protocol only has the TOP command for retrieving > partial messages and all it can do is retrieve the headers and the > first n body lines (body in the RFC 822 sense where the body includes > all the MIME headers, boundaries, etc.). Further, most POP clients > just retrieve all new messages on the server in their entirety when > asked to 'check mail'. > > And even with IMAP, it seems that at least Thunderbird with it's new > 3.0 'Synchronize IMAP Messages' feature is moving towards > unconditionally downloading all messages in their entirety. I just read your post above after replying to Carl's and it became clear that this is not the right approach for my case. Considering this I will try some of the other solutions you have suggested as I want to make this a simple and straightforward experience for my subscribers. Thanks, Joe ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
