Re: poplib.retr doens't flag message as read

2007-06-20 Thread Gabriel Genellina 
En Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:42:15 -0300, EuGeNe Van den Bulke  
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> Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>> The POP protocol has no concept of "read" or "unread" messages; the LIST
>> command simply shows all existing messages.
>
> My mistake, I guess I was confused by the documentation
>
> retr( which) Retrieve whole message number which, and set its seen flag.
> Result is in form (response, ['line', ...], octets).
>
> What is the seen flag? Nothing it seems
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-July/329888.html

Yes, sure, the docs are misleading. I'd just remove the reference to the  
"seen flag".

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Re: poplib.retr doens't flag message as read

2007-06-20 Thread EuGeNe Van den Bulke 
Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> The POP protocol has no concept of "read" or "unread" messages; the LIST 
> command simply shows all existing messages. 

My mistake, I guess I was confused by the documentation

retr( which) Retrieve whole message number which, and set its seen flag. 
Result is in form (response, ['line', ...], octets).

What is the seen flag? Nothing it seems 
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-July/329888.html

Thanks for your help,

EuGeNe -- http://www.3kwa.com
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Re: poplib.retr doens't flag message as read

2007-06-19 Thread Gabriel Genellina 
En Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:14:58 -0300, EuGeNe Van den Bulke  
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> I am trying to use the poplib library to get emails using the retr
> method. The small program bellow works but the message aren't flagged as
> read which puzzles me. I believe the pop server is qmail 1.0.6 /
> vpopmail 5.2.1 and I am running the following script on Windows using
> Pyhton 2.5.

The POP protocol has no concept of "read" or "unread" messages; the LIST  
command simply shows all existing messages. You may want to use another  
protocol, like IMAP, if the server supports it.

You could delete messages after successful retrieval, using the DELE  
command. Only after a successful QUIT command will the server actually  
delete them.

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