Re: POP3 Downloads

["Ayitey Bulley" <abulley at ghana.com>]

I was assuming that Maildir format mail boxes should be able to do it, I
believe it may not necessarily be the case if you are using the flat file
mail box format.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Sangiwa" <bsangiwa at twiga.com>
To: "Antonio Godinho" <antonio at nambu.uem.mz>
Cc: "Brian Candler" <B.Candler at pobox.com>; <afnog at afnog.org>
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: POP3 Downloads


>
> 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
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