Downloading Mail, Overview

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4D v19

The set of commands prefixed by "MSG_" allows the user to manipulate mail messages which have been saved as local files using the POP3_Download or IMAP_Download command described in the previous section. Because the set of commands are fully MIME compliant, 4D Internet Commands provide the means for attachments to be extracted and/or decoded. For more information on the MIME standards, refer to RFC#1521, RFC#1522 and RFC#2045.

Once messages have been downloaded to local files, the commands in this section provide a variety of functions to manipulate the documents. These commands can obtain information about the message parts, separate the header detail from the message body, detect and extract attachments within the message as well as delete existing documents.