Re: Attempts at establishing harmful conventions

[Bruce Lilly <blilly@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue November 30 2004 21:46, Laird Breyer wrote:

> Unfortunately, retrieving/analysing full bodies are expensive
> operations, for example think of an IMAP server where the MUA works
> with headers only and downloads bodies only if absolutely necessary.

IMAP has a number of features that operate on the server's
message store as directed by the client, including searching
capability.  There's also Sieve-based filtering.