On Friday, February 04, 2000, 3:47:08 AM, Mark Aston wrote:
CGS>> The last time I did this, I lost the whole mail. Neither did I have it
CGS>> in my INBOX, nor it was left on my POP server ... So I don' trust it ...
> Confirmed, I had not tried this feature for a while, so I just tested
> it, it seems once the header is downloaded that the message is gone
> from the server. I personally don't mind this, I will not download any
> large messages no matter who they are from, sending large files by
> mail is very inefficient and I prefer an ftp link.
But this should be a bug and a serious one... it's certainly not a
feature! TB seems to be imposing your preferences on everyone. You should
be able to download the header, and any number of lines you want with the
header (to get an idea of what the large message is about)... BUT... you
should also have the option of then either downloading or deleting the
message from the Server.
I've set my download options so that only the headers and a few lines of
text in the large messages are downloaded, but I never thought that doing
so also deleted the original message from the Server. It's interesting to
note RITLabs logic on this:
> Receive header only if message size if greater than n K bytes - use this
> option if you do not want to receive large messages from the account.
> This may be useful when you are away from your home and want to read
> only significant messages (messages of such kind are usually relatively
> short)
I don't agree with that logic... not at all.
Please RITLabs... correct this bug and turn it into a feature by allowing
a little flexibility insofar as leaving what happens to the message, up to
me. The message was addressed to me, not you, so don't _you_ decide what
happens to it.
Nick
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