Re: [ILUG-BOM] pop3 arguments

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 12:12:07AM +0530, Pradnyesh Sawant wrote:

PASS, LIST, DELE, QUIT) that cud b passed 2 the pop3 server 2 delete mails directly from the server w/o d'loading them. i tried the above cmds with my email service provider, the LIST cmd shows only the mail no. & size.

And thats the way it should behave. You are probably expecting to see the 'Subject:' or 'From:' lines for each message, which it won't. Refer to RFC1939. Messages can be directly deleted from the server on the basis of their size and not the subject because for knowing the subject you got to retrieve the header. But POP3 doesn't have a command for retrieving *only* the header. The RETR command gets the whole message.