Re: POP3 Downloads

[Bill Sangiwa <bsangiwa at twiga.com>]

with qpopper you can force the server deamon to delete all downloaded 
msgs, once downloaded, BUT watch that might have repercusions.. my 
experience even with uidl when links breaks it will start from begining

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Antonio Godinho wrote:

> One mail client that supports choosing messages you want to 
> download or even delete without downloading is pegasus mail and 
> is available at www.pmail.com.
> There is an option in the FILE menu " selective mail download ".
> You can choose what to download or even delete without 
> downloading and it shows you the size of the message as well.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 03:46:03PM -0000, Ayitey Bulley wrote:
> > > Lets say I am a dial-in subscriber to an ISP. I have connected to
> > > the ISP to download my mail. In the middle of downloading the mail
> > > (say 20 of 200 messages), the link breaks.
> > > 
> > > I reconnect to download my mail, it starts from message 1 again.
> > > 
> > > I am looking for a solution where mail downloaded will not be
> > > downloaded again i.e. messages successfully received are removed
> > > from the server and not downloaded again.
> > 
> > I suggest using a POP3 client which uses 'UIDL' to determine which
> > messages it has seen and not seen. You might have to turn on an option
> > in your POP3 client to enable this functionality.
> > 
> > It does depend on the remote POP3 server supporting the 'UIDL' command
> > as well (it's "optional" in RFC1939), but many do. You can find out by
> > telnetting to port 110, logging in (USER xxx // PASS yyy) and then
> > seeing if UIDL produces a response.
> > 
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> 
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