There is a way to get partial information and not the entire message. So
one could download enough to figure out its pure HTML without having to
download the entire message. For instance, if one got the first 200 lines
one could probably determine much of the header info and also the message
type sufficient to provide greater filtering variables than what OE now
provides.

steve

"N. Miller" wrote in message
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On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:54:40 -0400, Steve Cochran wrote:

That's the problem. People want the computer to read the message and not
download it if it has certain characteristics, but how do you read it
without downloading it? G

I've seen some people claim that MailWasher can do that. They tend to
back off when I point out that, even though MW doesn't write the message
to disk (maybe; but what about the virtual swap file), it still has to
pull the message from the POP3 server and load it into memory.

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Norman
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