I not want POP3 attachments to download with my MIME message

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Attachment size in my emails is big and I am interested only in email body and not want to download attachments. I tried some open source c# POP3 libraries. I also tried MIME libraries.

Please guide some solution.

Posted 8-Mar-10 9:09am

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Rod Kemp · Answer 1 · 2010-03-08T14:11:00

Emails are a single file which contain the text body and the attachments as base64 encoded strings, the only way to download part of the message is by using the TOP command, which I have no seen used by POP3 libraries, another way would be to modify the message download code to only download a certain amount such as 3-4KB before aborting the download.

List of POP3 commands for reference[^]