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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] Kmail and strange IMAP behaviour
From:       Derek Broughton <derek () pointerstop ! ca>
Date:       2006-10-02 2:08:35
Message-ID: 200610012308.35479.derek () pointerstop ! ca
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On Sunday 01 October 2006 19:55, Scott wrote:
> Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> >
> > Most likely you are using filters (probably a spam filter). In order
> > to
> > be able to filter a message KMail has to download the entire message.
> > If you use a spam filter then all messages will be altered while being
> > filtered (the spam filter adds some headers to the messages).
>
> I too have IMAP accounts and decided to give KMail a try (I've mostly
> used
> Thunderbird).
>
> Thunderbird would download the headers of each message and filter on
> them.
> Are you saying that KMail can't do that? KMail can only download the
> entire
> message to filter on?

Ingo would certainly know better than me, but I think what he was saying is 
that _spam_ filters need to download the message.  There's a limit to what 
Thunderbird can do by just examining the headers.  It _can't_ do proper spam 
filtering that way.
-- 
derek
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