Re: POP3 Downloads

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

Thanks,

I will check it out.

--Ayitey


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Antonio Godinho" <antonio at nambu.uem.mz>
To: "Brian Candler" <B.Candler at pobox.com>; <afnog at afnog.org>
Cc: <afnog at afnog.org>
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: POP3 Downloads


> 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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