Re: [Dovecot] Question about the pop3 feature leave messages on server for a certain period of time

2009-09-12 Thread Seth Mattinen
Δημήτριος Καραπιπέρης wrote: O/H Timo Sirainen έγραψε: On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 11:57 +0300, Δημήτριος Καραπιπέρης wrote: I am missing something on the the pop3 leave messages rationale. Although the UIDL feature solves for the MUA the problem whch mails should be downloaded, how the

Re: [Dovecot] Question about the pop3 feature leave messages on server for a certain period of time

2009-09-12 Thread Charles Marcus
On 9/11/2009, Axel Luttgens (axelluttg...@swing.be) wrote: Well, POP is rather well RFC-based too... ;-) In fact, POP and IMAP are both well-defined protocols; they just are optimized for each extreme of possible behaviors: remove everything from the server as soon as a local copy has been

Re: [Dovecot] Question about the pop3 feature leave messages on server for a certain period of time

2009-09-12 Thread Axel Luttgens
Le 12 sept. 2009 à 09:27, Charles Marcus a écrit : On 9/11/2009, Axel Luttgens (***) wrote: Well, POP is rather well RFC-based too... ;-) In fact, POP and IMAP are both well-defined protocols; they just are optimized for each extreme of possible behaviors: remove everything from the

Re: [Dovecot] Question about the pop3 feature leave messages on server for a certain period of time

2009-09-12 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
Axel Luttgens escreveu: No, I don't think to have omitted anything: I already replied to the OP wrt the 'leave messages on server' matter. Here, I was replying to Leonardo (who's not the OP) who started a new idea (a potentially misleading POP vs IMAP debate) within the original thread.

Re: [Dovecot] Question about the pop3 feature leave messages on server for a certain period of time

2009-09-12 Thread Δημήτριος Καραπιπέρης
O/H Leonardo Rodrigues έγραψε: Axel Luttgens escreveu: No, I don't think to have omitted anything: I already replied to the OP wrt the 'leave messages on server' matter. Here, I was replying to Leonardo (who's not the OP) who started a new idea (a potentially misleading POP vs IMAP debate)

[Dovecot] Question about the pop3 feature leave messages on server for a certain period of time

2009-09-11 Thread Δημήτριος Καραπιπέ ρης
Hi all I am missing something on the the pop3 leave messages rationale. Although the UIDL feature solves for the MUA the problem whch mails should be downloaded, how the duration that these mails should be kept on server, say 10 days for one MUA and 20 days for another MUA for the same

Re: [Dovecot] Question about the pop3 feature leave messages on server for a certain period of time

2009-09-11 Thread Joseba Torre
Hi, if I understand correctly, this feature is 100% client side, so the server does nothing at all. When client connects to the server, the client checks mails date and deletes some of them based on its own settings. HTH El Viernes 11 Septiembre 2009 a las 10:57, Δημήτριος Καραπιπέρης

Re: [Dovecot] Question about the pop3 feature leave messages on server for a certain period of time

2009-09-11 Thread Δημήτριος Καραπιπέρης
Hi I can clearly understand this, but what if we have two MUAs with different time period settings on the same account , 10 days the first and 20 days the second. The first when it will be connected on the 10th day it will delete on server all messages, so the second will not get anything at

Re: [Dovecot] Question about the pop3 feature leave messages on server for a certain period of time

2009-09-11 Thread Axel Luttgens
Le 11 sept. 2009 à 12:07, Δημήτριος Καραπιπέρης a écrit : Hi I can clearly understand this, but what if we have two MUAs with different time period settings on the same account , 10 days the first and 20 days the second. The first when it will be connected on the 10th day it will delete

Re: [Dovecot] Question about the pop3 feature leave messages on server for a certain period of time

2009-09-11 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
Δημήτριος Καραπιπέρης escreveu: Hi I can clearly understand this, but what if we have two MUAs with different time period settings on the same account , 10 days the first and 20 days the second. The first when it will be connected on the 10th day it will delete on server all messages, so the

Re: [Dovecot] Question about the pop3 feature leave messages on server for a certain period of time

2009-09-11 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 11:57 +0300, Δημήτριος Καραπιπέρης wrote: I am missing something on the the pop3 leave messages rationale. Although the UIDL feature solves for the MUA the problem whch mails should be downloaded, how the duration that these mails should be kept on server, say 10 days

Re: [Dovecot] Question about the pop3 feature leave messages on server for a certain period of time

2009-09-11 Thread Axel Luttgens
Le 11 sept. 2009 à 22:59, Leonardo Rodrigues a écrit : Δημήτριος Καραπιπέρης escreveu: Hi I can clearly understand this, but what if we have two MUAs with different time period settings on the same account , 10 days the first and 20 days the second. The first when it will be connected on

Re: [Dovecot] Question about the pop3 feature leave messages on server for a certain period of time

2009-09-11 Thread Δημήτριος Καραπιπέρης
O/H Timo Sirainen έγραψε: On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 11:57 +0300, Δημήτριος Καραπιπέρης wrote: I am missing something on the the pop3 leave messages rationale. Although the UIDL feature solves for the MUA the problem whch mails should be downloaded, how the duration that these mails should be