Re: [tpop3d-discuss] Mail 'read' status

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:24:11PM -0800, James Gurney wrote:

> apparently did. So in fact, to revert to the old behaviour would require 
> tpop3d to modify the status headers of the mail to indicate downloaded 
> mail had been read.
> 
> I'm assuming this isn't possible, since as you said above, it doesn't 
> modify the headers now. Maybe consider this as a future enhancement request?

The basic answer to this question is, `no, it's a POP
server, not an IMAP server'. You could use maildir, in
which case tpop3d will move messages from new/ to cur/,
but that's a big change to make for a small reason....

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