[sylpheed:30011] Re: "Don't Receive" does receive

Hiroyuki Yamamoto hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp
Fri Sep 8 08:41:29 ICT 2006


Hello,

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:00:05 +1000
Jack Olszewski <jacek at hermes.net.au> wrote:

> 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
> HY> without receiving the message. "Don't receive" actually receive a
> HY> message, but silently removes it after that (so it looks like
> HY> 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). 

UIDL just returns each message IDs on the server, not the headers.

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>


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