top-lines

Arguments: pb message lines

pb must be a pop mailbox. message is a message number (an integer). lines is a count of the number of lines (an integer). top-lines returns the header and the lines top lines of the message. To just retrieve the headers, specify lines to be zero. See the function make-envelope-from-text for a means of reading the information in the header.

See imap.htm for more information.

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