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Re: [h-e-w] Re: Gnus, anyone?


From: Peter Davis
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Re: Gnus, anyone?
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:13:56 -0500

At 07:46 AM 12/22/2001, you wrote:
address@hidden (Adam P.) writes:

[...]
> But, I must honestly admit it, I still didn't manage to make it leave
> mail on pop3 server...

Although that can be done, it may be wise not to do so. It sort of
violates the POP3 standard.

RFC 1939 says:
        ...
#   When these facilities are used in this way by casual users, there has
#   been a tendency for already-read messages to accumulate on the server
#   without bound.  This is clearly an undesirable behavior pattern from
#   the standpoint of the server operator.

Yes, trying to use a POP server as an IMAP server is definitely a mistake. However, in most cases that I'm aware of, the leave-on-server feature is used only as a temporary measure, such as when the user wants to read e-mail both at home and at work, but want to have to have a complete repository in one place or another.

For me, I have one e-mail account for my personal mail, and one for my work-related mail. When I read from home, I leave the work-related mail on the server until I get to the office, and vice versa.

The epop3mail package also includes a nifty utility called epop3-manage-mailbox, which lets you probe all the messages on your POP server, and delete individual ones while leaving others.

-pd



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