I am looking for a POP mail client for windows (gui based of course)
which supports two primary features I am looking for. An answer to
this question should include the name/website of such a mail client. 
I am not sure a mail client exists that supports both the features
listed below. I am willing to pay for the mail client that can do both
of these things.

The two features I am looking for are these:
1) Must support filtering of messages based on Headers. Specifically I
receive pop mail through yahoo which adds a header to the mail
messages called X-YahooFilteredBulk, when this header is presant the
message is marked as spam and I need to re-direct it to another
folder. (Incredimail XE for example does not support this, Eudora &
outlook and others do)

2) This one's been the kicker. I need the mail client to download all
relavant images from html emails (such as gif files) that are linked
to in the email. So if the email is refferencing a gif image on an
external server I need that gif image to be downloaded and cached by
the mail client when I download my mail, this way I can view the full
email (with images, etc) offline.

Thanks,
David

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Clarification of Question by davidparks21-ga on 28 Nov 2003 23:56 PST

As mvguy notes I too do not see a way to get mozilla to cache the
images for offline use other than viewing the message while online,
then I do see that it keeps the images in cache (I assume the html
viewing engine is simply that of the browser and thus uses the same
cache parameters). However what I want the mail client to do is to
prepare that cache upon downloading, it would be such a simple feature
to add to the mail clients, sadly I don't see one that offers this
yet.

Still if anyone knows of one I'd love to know about it.

Thanks for all the comments so far everyone!
David

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Clarification of Question by davidparks21-ga on 29 Nov 2003 09:32 PST

Thanks rkm100-ga, unfortunately that'd mean I would have to keep those
windows open, which is close, but not quite what I need. I'd like to
be able to close down eudora and re-open it and still have the images
cached, I tried this and it's not the case.

Thanks for the comment though, I think this is the closest I'll come
to an answer, and it was useful and got me thinking in a different
direction at least. Please copy that comment in as the answer.

Thanks to everyone!
David

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Clarification of Question by davidparks21-ga on 12 Dec 2003 15:10 PST

After long searching I have found what I believe is the closest
possible match for the features that I'm looking for.

I have found a mail client called PocoMail. It's a very nice mail
client and includes an embedded full script language which can be used
to write custom scripts. I have not done it yet, but it seems very
powerful. While it doesn't offer the exact functionality I want, it
looks like I'll be able to write a script which reads the status of
the email (i.e. read, unread, etc) then open the email, cache the
images (it does include a configurable cache, not based on IE) and
then close the email and set it's status back to what it was
originally.

Hopefully it'll work, it looks like I will be able to do it, so if
there's anyone out there looking at this wondering about similar mail
clinet functionality this is the best option I've found so far.

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Just a couple days ago I heard about an alternative that I don't know 
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It uses an especially easy ChoiceMail-like online verification process 
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Two solutions for you, both relatively spam free, both low cost, and 
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try Mozilla Mail.
You have to download the latest Mozilla browser here:
http://www.mozilla.org

The MozillaMail is integrated with the browser.
It had both features you need.

Mozilla Thunderbird does not keep remote images in a cache for offline
viewing. At least the version I have (0.3) does not.

There are not many people who would be looking a feature like this..
So I seriously doubt that you would get this feature in any of the
existing packages :)

I use Eudora.. and one way of doing it that in my option/Tools/Display
I would enable Automatic download html graphics option.

Then I would normall downloaded all my eMails.. (deleting Spam and
unwanted eMails), I would select all the eMails and press enter..
Eudora would open all the eMails in separate windows,  and if there is
HTML content, it would download the same and save it in your disk.

You could always disconnect the Net.. but you would still have the
graphics in your Machine :)

Hope this helps