[imp] Re: Delays in IMP

Fernando Gont fgont at li.frh.utn.edu.ar
Thu Mar 17 17:13:17 PST 2005


Jan Schneider wrote:

>>Tip #1: Use IMAP, not POP.
>>Tip #2: c-client is responsible for the interaction between the POP
>>server and the local client, not IMP.
>>    
>>
>
>Tip #3: Don't use any features that *require* the full message bodies, 
>like message previews.
>  
>

I'm not using any of those features. As I said, IMP (c-client, or 
whatever) is retrieving the entire body of the message just to get the 
headers of the messages. That's why I say that using the "TOP" POP3 
command would make much more sense.

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Fernando Gont (fgont at frh.utn.edu.ar)
Laboratorio de Informatica
Universidad Tecnologica Nacional, Facultad Regional Haedo
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