On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 06:52:04AM +0200, Martin Lambers wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, 27. Apr 2010, 07:58:56 +0800, Yue Wu wrote: > > As title, I've have a line "only_new on" in mpoprc, but after I've marked > > mails to be read in other mail clients with imap, mpop still fetches these > > mails into maildir, can I change this behavior, so it will only fetch the > > *real* unread mails only? > > Unfortunately, that does not work, because of limitations of the POP3 > protocol. > > In POP3, there is no way to ask the server if a message was read or not. > The client has to keep track of this itself, by storing the UIDs of > mails that were retrieved before. This means that every POP3 client has > a different idea about which mails were read and which were not, because > it only knows about the mail UIDs that it stored locally. >
Get it, thanks you for explanation, I think I have to tolerate with the current way. imap is nice, but right now, it's easier and convenient for me to configure and use combination of mpop, procmail and mutt :) -- Regards, Yue Wu Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicines Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine China Pharmaceutical University No.24, Tongjia Xiang Street, Nanjing 210009, China ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ mpop-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mpop-users
