Posted by Oli Howson on 12/15/05 12:39

> Than what? The imap extension is faster and has parsing functionality
> built in.
True, but the parsing is to be done at a completely different time, and
then imap extension can't be >that< much faster, when you consider that
my method is doing very little processing, and basically getting the
messages as fast as they can download!


> Also there's a PEAR Net_POP3 library if you insist on using sockets
> which handles lots of menial tasks for you.
But where's the fun in that?

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