On Monday 08 September 2008 22:01:36 Gary wrote: > Mark wrote: > > Um, no, maybe it's one of those "ugly hacks", but viewing just the > > headers is possible with POP3. Also, telneting to pine gives the > > equivalent functionality *without* any hacks. > > Perhaps with some mail clients but it's not part of the RFC. IMAP, on > the other hand, was designed with resource limitations in mind. It > sounds like the majority of your experience with IMAP is as an end user. > If you were a sysadmin of a mail server, for example, you might > reconsider your position. I'm not trying to argue rather than suggest > that there are many sides to an issue and it's unfortunate that you've > not had a positive experience with a protocol due to some issues that > probably could have been resolved if you worked it through with your > mail server admin and/or the client developers. Again, we don't all have > the time for such things but if you want a positive experience with a > slightly buggy product, please voice your opinion constructively and > your efforts will help not only you but the rest of the user base. > > On that note, I love where Diablo's going. No more flashing! > and yet, header downloading works in modest, but deleting mails of servers dont. so what is the ugly hack now? color me confused... _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
