You should look at cfx_imap tag in the tagGallery
The Imap protocol will give you much for control over your mail access.
Most pop servers are imap servers too.
~Justin MacCarthy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Owen Leonard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 12:54 PM
Subject: RE: CFPOP's MessageNumber
> I'm looking for the answer to the very same question. I'd like people
> to be able to check their messages via the web, but also have access to
> them from other mail clients. My solution was to copy their mail
> messages to a database, but then I run into the problem of CFPOP not
> knowing which messages on the server have already been downloaded.
> I wondered if it would be simpler to just download all the messages
> again, and then run some kind of comparison to look for duplicates in
> the table. But that sounds kinda time-consuming.
> I know that mail programs like Outlook and Netscape leave a file on
> your mail server that acts as a kind of placeholder so they know where
> they left off. I wonder if a combination of CFPOP and CFMAIL could do
> the same thing?
>
> -- Owen
>
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 11:11 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: CFPOP's MessageNumber
> >
> >
> > If I do a CFPOP with ACTION="GetAll" and then later do an
> > ACTION="Delete", how does CF keep track of which message I'm referring
> > to? What if in the meantime another process had deleted one
> > or more of
> > the messages returned in the original call to CFPOP - will message #10
> > still be the message I thought it was? I suspect it will
> > simply be the
> > 10th message returned by the mail server whenever the delete action is
> > run and the wrong one message would be deleted from the server.
> >
> > A variation on this, which is what I'm trying to do: I'd
> > like to have a
> > CF program, using CFPOP, retrieve messages from a mailbox,
> > _not_ delete
> > the messages, then in subsequent runs, retrieve only new messages
> > (similar to the way an email client might operate)? I understand the
> > STARTROW attribute, but once again, it doesn't seem to
> > address starting
> > at a specific message, simply at the Nth message. What if
> > messages had
> > been deleted since the last program execution - won't that throw this
> > STARTROW point off? Is there any other way of identifying a specific
> > message and saying "retrieve every message after this one"?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim
>
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