sweetpea said:
I now have a E-mails program that has an advance option that lets me view
all e-mails on server before downloading and deleting the ones that I do not
want to download.
Think about it for just 2 seconds. Just HOW are you going to read
anything from the mail server using a local e-mail client unless you
*download* it? No matter what this other program pretends, it MUST
download the item to show it to you. That's like saying a web server
presents to you their web page to display in our web browser without any
traffic getting downloaded from them to you.
Doing a RETR (retrieve) command without a following DELE (delete)
command or doing a "TOP n" command (to retrieve headers and first n
lines) is still downloading the message.
Some e-mail clients let you use the "TOP n" command. They send TOP if
they just want to get only the headers. The send "TOP n" if they want
to get the headers and the first n lines from the body of the messages.
You can configure Outlook to only retrieve headers (TOP command) but you
cannot configure it to include n lines of the body (Outlook won't send
"TOP n" as there is no configurable option to specify the value for n).
In Outlook, you can configure the Send/Receive settings for an account
to download only the item descriptions (i.e., headers). Headers will be
all that you get. When you want to see the body of those messages, you
will have to mark them and then download the marked messages.
Don't expect features in one e-mail program to be present in other
e-mail programs. That's why they are different e-mail programs.
Outlook is a corporate-oriented e-mail and PIM client. It wasn't
designed to cooperate with spam filters. In a corporate environment,
spam filtering is done upstream of the clients (i.e., on the mail server
or even ahead of it). Thus Outlook is designed to download all of
whatever is up on the mail server to which it connects. Spam filtering
is always better handled up at the mail server; however, you don't have
access or control of your ISP's or e-mail provider's mail server when
using Outlook at home.
