Could someone still help with these issues please?
Thanks.
On 2022-08-31 11:46:15, X Tec wrote:
> With debugger I saw this line: "-ERR Unknown command: LAST"; so I think you
> were right once again...
> So if I wanted this function, or the one of "keep messages in server for x
> days", would I need another external POP3 mail fetcher?
> I did read in the Mutt wiki that Mutt originally didn't intend to have native
> SMTP support, but it ended up (reluctantly?) being added eventually; which is
> why I decided to learn Msmtp as well. However, I was unable to find any proof
> of this being the same case for IMAP and POP3, and I searched the whole wiki
> and docs. So I thought "so unlike SMTP, Mutt has always been supposed to
> support IMAP and POP3 natively".
> But then, must I understand that this is *not* the case for POP3?
>
>
>
> > ---A more general thing: what are Ctrl+O ("open mailbox") and '$' actually
> > for?
> > On IMAP Ctrl+O is the only one updating the mailboxes; '$' just says
> > "mailbox is unchanged" even if there are being new messages at that instant
> > (I have tested it), and only does stuff only if there are messages marked
> > for deletion
> > On POP3 both Ctrl+O and '$' seem to do nothing at all, and only 'G'
> > downloads messages
>
> Could someone still help a bit with this too? I use Ctrl+O because I do use
> sidebar; without it I have no idea of how to manually "update/refresh" IMAP
> folders...
>
>
>
> > ---Finally, on IMAP, different email providers seem to have totally
> > different ways to specify their subfolders for the variables $sent,
> > $drafts...: "INBOX.sent", "[Gmail]/Sent Mail", etc. Then how am I supposed
> > to find out which syntax each email service uses?
>
> So this has really no solution?
>
>
>
> Thanks again beofrehand for your attention.
>
>
>
> > On 2022-08-30 18:34:42, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 03:14:21PM -0500, X Tec wrote:
> > > > Fetching email with 'G' key just ignores the "pop_last=yes" setting
> > > > because it always downloads all email regardless of locally read or not,
> > > > even though other clients such as Outlook or Thunderbird don't do this
> > > > mistake. So I don't think server doesn't support the LAST command...
> > >
> > > Run with debugging enabled (-d 2) and check the log file to see what the
> > > LAST command response is from the server. Since the command was
> > > deprecated
> > > some time ago, I would venture the server is returning an unknown command
> > > error.
> > >
> > > Mutt's POP3 support *is* simple, so if LAST isn't supported, the behavior
> > > you are seeing with <fetch-mail> is expected.
> > >
> > > You may be happier just directly connecting to a pops:// URL via one of
> > > your
> > > mailboxes instead; or with a more sophisticated tool, such as Getmail
> > > (which
> > > Sam mentioned).
> > >
> > > --
> > > Kevin J. McCarthy
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> >
> >
