Re: POP3 Downloads

["Antonio Godinho" <antonio at nambu.uem.mz>]

Pegasus will delete mail even without downloading.



> 
> 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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> > 
> > Antonio Godinho
> > B.Sc., MCP, MCP+Internet, MCSE, CCNA
> > Address:Av. Julius Nyerere 947 3rd floor esq 
> > Maputo - Mozambique
> > Phone  : 258-82-300392
> > e-mail : ANTONIO at nambu.uem.mz
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Antonio Godinho
B.Sc., MCP, MCP+Internet, MCSE, CCNA
Address:Av. Julius Nyerere 947 3rd floor esq 
Maputo - Mozambique
Phone  : 258-82-300392
e-mail : ANTONIO at nambu.uem.mz

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about less and less until he knows absolutely 
everything about nothing.
                     

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