[sylpheed:30010] Re: "Don't Receive" does receive

Jack Olszewski jacek at hermes.net.au
Fri Sep 8 08:00:05 ICT 2006


On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:41:05 +0900
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> wrote:

HY> ...
HY> It is impossible to decide whether to apply a rule to a message without
HY> receiving the message. "Don't receive" actually receive a message, but
HY> silently removes it after that (so it looks like it's not received).
HY> 

It depends on the filter condition. If the condition concerns the message body, you are right - the message has to be retrieved. If, however, it concerns items provided by UIDL (from the message headers) like sender's address, there is no need to use RETR (to retrieve the body). 

Cheers,
--
Jack


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