Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 21:35:15 02/05/04
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On February 05, 2004 at 19:29:25, Mike Byrne wrote: >Since somebody also spoofed my email address on a mass mailing(s) , I get alot >returned mailed with the full cargo 500 to 1MB attachements (viruses ). That's the bad thing about POP3 (as opposed to IMAP) email accounts. A POP3 account downloads all of the messages. An IMAP account would only download the headers. A professor of mine told me a story about a time he went on vacation (or business trip, or something) long ago (before he was teaching). He was trying to check his email and he only had dialup. He kept dialing in, it would download the first several messages, then hang for a while, and the connection would drop. It turns out someone in the company sent him something with a big attachment, and the dialup connection wasn't stable enough to allow the download of the big file. Had the email account been IMAP instead of POP3, he could have downloaded only the headers and had no problems.
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