> Would be nice if the email was deleted per piece of mail after > sucessfull retrieval rather than batch deleted upon completion of > download of all email per that account. I don't know if this email > deletion symantic is RFC compliant or not...
Your suspicion that it's non-RFC is correct. 1460, 1725 and 1939 agree that "The POP3 server does not actually delete [DELE] the message until the POP3 session enters the UPDATE state." and that "When the client has issued the QUIT command, the session enters the UPDATE state." Beyond the RFC issue, you have a major performance issue. The disk and CPU necessary to continually update the mailbox and reindex could be astronomical; you could quickly make POP3 overtake IWEBMSG as the most resource-hungry daemon. I think the solution for situations such as yours is to use an MUA that can do "mailbox management" kind of functions without message retrieval. I know I keep plugging it (of course, I have no affiliation of any sort with them), but The Bat! is great for this, using its "Dispatch mail on server" module. Eudora seems like it's likely to do this too. I'm convinced that Outlook 97 used to be able to do this, though who knows where this functionality has gone these days? -Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
