Re: [Evolution] options on download

[John Griffiths <john capmon com>]

Star Ofiice just brings the headers down right now....

At 06:37 PM 6/1/2000 -0400, Sejal Patel wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Tom Musgrove wrote:
>
> > will take the longest to download.  Or to have a method of retrieving only
> > the headers and marking messages to delete before they are downloaded from
> > the server.  As it is, my mailbox is essentially DoSed until I finally
> > succeed in downloading the message...  Is this something that would be
> > possible to do?
>
> I do remember Microsoft Exchange doing this in one of there original
> releases and I actually found that to be extremely helper (as would any
> modem and/or slow connection user).  I've not looked into how they did
> that at all since I forgot all about it until now but I'd be glad to do
> some code on that stuff if someone wants to help me figure out if it is
> possible to simply download the headers and then manually select which
> messages to download off of the server based on the message indexes or
> something ...
>
> -- 
> Sejal Patel - CS 1312 STA     "I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
>   sejal cc gatech edu        Why so can I, or so can any man; but will
>    Georgia Institute         they come when you do call for them?"
>      of Technology           Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I
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