Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: deleting oversized messages without fetching them

On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 17:48:21 +0530 Gautam Mani wrote:

JFetch allows you to easily plugin mail-filters which is really kewl.

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through one central config file. Java's dynamic class-loading mechanism helped me a lot here.

You can do all of this in C and C++. "Dynamic class-loading" needs to be OS supported and you can have this done in C and C++. AFAIK, it can be done in any language as long as the compiler knows how to generate object code for such purposes. I don't know when or by whom this technique was first implemented but A little googlizing revealed a Sun Microsystems document dated 1992 regarding this. Most of the mainstream OSes support this now.