At 12:01 PM -0500 on 6/30/00, Ken Jenkins wrote:

>This is the ol', "You sent me a 30Mb attachment to an email
>and I really don't want to do that right now"-problem
>correct? I think you'll find that POP accounts do not
>allow for selecting which items to "receive" (and a
>POP receive always includes the attachment(s) ) where
>as IMAP accounts will let you look at the individual
>items and pick and choose prior to receiving them.
>Most people have POP type accounts and are stuck with
>the all-or-nothing problem. Someone correct me if I'm
>wrong here please.

I use Eudora with a POP account and there is a setting to keep mail 
larger than a certain size (you choose how big) on the server.

It will download the headers and notify you that the rest of the 
message is waiting.  You can then choose to get the rest of the 
message at your convenience.

I don't know if any other programs support this but Eudora Pro is the 
best anyway.

Brian Hughes