Kishor Bhagwat wrote:
>
> pardon me..i used pine a few years ago..and if i remember correctly, it
> supported a very inefficient form of pop3...u had to give it as a
> parameter while defining the 'server' for collection...and btw..it leaves
> mail on the server too...
That would most likely be the imap settings in pine. In imap, mails are
supposed to be left on the server until deleted.
AFAIK, there is only one way to do POP3 and that is using the POP3
protocol. Ok, some clients use the UIDL method to determine if the
message has already been downloaded or not (Netscape Messenger), while
others use LAST which is not so reliable (Fetchmail, OE).
Not reliable, because - picture this - I have 10 messages, I read msg 1,
5, 7. When I use fetchmail, it does a LAST, and finds 7 as the last
read message. It then downloads messages 8, 9, 10. Message 2, 3, 4, 6
are still unread. These will never be read until 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 are
deleted.
Scenario two: My connection drops in the middle of the download. If I
looked at UIDs, then I would always know which messages had been read.
Using LAST is not reliable, cause the Status flag may not yet have been
set before the connection dropped (assuming the mail had already been
downloaded).
Philip
PS: Someone tell me if my line length is wrong or not. I'm using
Netscape Messenger to send this.
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