167395 - TOP command to view messages on server before downloading them

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, enhancement)

Description

[Jason Anderson]

I have used other e-mail clients that have the capability to 'preview' the
e-mail messages (pop3) on the server before downloading. Thus fighting the war
of spamand unsolicited e-mail. This would be a great enhancement to Mozilla Mail.

                 Thank You

Comment 1

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

The major disadvantage is, that you preview and thereby transfer the header plus
possibly some first lines of the body. And then again transfer the header and
all of the body. So you lose a lot by saving some message bodies.

pi

Comment 2

[Jason Anderson]

what I would like to see happen is to preview whats on the server have it show, sender and subject, no body.. then you can decide by the sender and title if you want to 'leave, delete, or download' the e-mail.
http://memecode.com/scribe.php Thats the link to the e-mail client that I have used that included a 'preview' function for pop3 clients. Thanks..

Comment 3

[Jason M. Abels]

This does seem to be pretty commonly supported part of POP3, but it's not
required to be implemented to be in line with the pop3 spec. Still, it would be
a nice feature. I imagine this would have to be an all-or-none setting. We would
need a mail/news preference "limit pop3 messages to X lines".

Comment 4

[Hiroshi Iwatani]

I believe TOP --> DEL menu option in Mozilla Mail
would help repelling spams from them coming to
the client's inbox. 

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign.

Comment 6

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 7

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"