Re: Misc minor POP3 issues

Steve Dorner <sdorner@qualcomm.com> Fri, 03 June 1994 22:33 UTC

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From: Steve Dorner <sdorner@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: Misc minor POP3 issues

At 5:18 PM 6/3/94, Michael D'Errico wrote:
>Why not deprecate TOP and replace it with the HEAD command (for "headers")
>which would just return the message headers?  (Is there really any use
>for the first few lines of the body?)

Yes, there is a use for the first few lines of the body.  It allows the
user to "peek" at the text of a message.

If there were a reasonable way to abort a message transfer, this wouldn't
be a problem, but there is not; having QUIT pitch deletions puts the final
nail in that coffin.

I use TOP in both senses; as a way to get just the headers and as a way to
get the headers plus "some" of the body.

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Steve Dorner, Qualcomm Incorporated
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Misc minor POP3 issues John Gardiner Myers
Re: Misc minor POP3 issues Michael D'Errico
Re: Misc minor POP3 issues Steve Dorner
Re: Misc minor POP3 issues John Gardiner Myers
Re: Misc minor POP3 issues Michael D'Errico