Posted by Oli Howson on 12/15/05 14:29

> I would imagine it would be significantly faster, and you must be
> doing some processing to extract the email body.
I'll run some tests (when I can be bothered!) and post the results ;)
Not sure exactly how accurate they'll be though, cos the IMAP routines
won't let you retrieve just the whole message, which is what I wanted
to do!

> The fun is going to the pub earlier because you haven't got as much
> code to write, nor as many gotchas to resolve since someone (me) has
> written the code for you.
If this was a commercial venture and I was doing it as a job, I'd
concur. As it is, I'm writing code 'cos I enjoy it, so getting to
finish it quicker isn't really an issue, whereas knowing you've done
something yourself is an issue, for me at least.

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