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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 -------- Peter Davis Funny stuff at http://www.pfdstudio.com "The artwork formerly shown as prints." Resources for children's writers and illustrators http://www.pfdstudio.com/cwrl.html
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