On 25/03/03 10:58 +0530, Payal Rathod claimed thus ... : > next time. It means that once a mail is retrieved, it is immediately > deleted. In case of many other servers after the "quit" verb the real > deletion process takes place.
You are right in that the RFC for POP3 states that messages are to be actually deleted only after the QUIT command. However many pop3 servers delete immediately after the DELE command. Normally this should not cause problems. In fact, this prevent problems for people with connections like you. With the connection breaking in between, an RFC compliant POP3 server would hold back the mails that you had asked to be deleted, and when you download again the older mails would start getting retrieved all over again. The only way to save the situation in that case(fortunately not yours), is to use fetchmail with the -e parameter which causes an explicit expunge after specified number of messages by quitting and downloading again and again. - Sandip ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Definitive IT and Networking Event. Be There! NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003 -- Register today! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?keyn0001en _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
