POP3 - Mail Headers - Attachments...

[Andrew Bartlett]

This is why they invented IMAP...

Andrew Bartlett

alfred wrote:
> 
> You can't :)
> Attachments are made inline with mime headers. You could attempt to use
> the "top" command to snaffle the mime header without grabbing the whole
> message but this won't always work (e.g if there are two attachments,
> the html text and then a picture, you would probably only grab the first
> attachments details).
> 
> Donovan J. Edye wrote:
> 
> > G'Day,
> >
> > I am looking for a lightweight way using POP3 to determine:
> >
> > -          If a message has an attachment
> > -          What the name of the attachment is
> > -          What size the attachment is
> >
> > I have read the RFC's and cannot readily see a way to do this. I don't want
> > to download the message to get this info. I just want to determine it from
> > the mail headers if possible. Any ideas or pointers?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > -- Donovan
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> > E-Mail: d.edye at bigfoot.com <mailto:d.edye at bigfoot.com>  Web:
> > www.edye.wattle.id.au/ <http://www.edye.wattle.id.au/>
> > "If I throw a stick will you go away?"
> > "Very funny Scotty. Now beam down my pants!"
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> >
> >
> 
> --
> Alfred Reynolds
> alfred at mazuma.net.au

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