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POP3 UIDL - pop3-leave-mail-on-server (was: [PATCH] GnuTLS support on Wo
From: |
Reiner Steib |
Subject: |
POP3 UIDL - pop3-leave-mail-on-server (was: [PATCH] GnuTLS support on Woe32) |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:54:39 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
On Wed, Mar 09 2011, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> address@hidden (Claudio Bley) writes:
[...]
>> It retrieves unique message IDs and is pretty vital in implementing
>> leave-messages-on-server support for POP3 (which I require).
>
> I didn't know that was actually possible. Do many people use that?
It has been requested quite often. See the comments around
`pop3-leave-mail-on-server'...
,----[ gnus/lisp/pop3.el ]
| (defcustom pop3-leave-mail-on-server nil
| "*Non-nil if the mail is to be left on the POP server after fetching.
|
| If `pop3-leave-mail-on-server' is non-nil the mail is to be left
| on the POP server after fetching. Note that POP servers maintain
| no state information between sessions, so what the client
| believes is there and what is actually there may not match up.
| If they do not, then you may get duplicate mails or the whole
| thing can fall apart and leave you with a corrupt mailbox."
| ;; We can't use the UILD support from XEmacs mail-lib or cvs.m17n.org:
| ;; http://thread.gmane.org/address@hidden
| ;; http://thread.gmane.org/address@hidden
| ;; Any volunteer to re-implement this?
| :version "22.1" ;; Oort Gnus
| :type 'boolean
| :group 'pop3)
`----
BTW, I don't know why you removed the corresponding warnings from
`pop3-movemail' with this commit:
,----[ git log - gnus/lisp/pop3.el ]
| commit 119a867afc587c9261730362a6478fc3801df1b5
| Author: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
| Date: Thu Sep 9 16:06:38 2010 +0200
|
| Remove pop3-movemail and rename pop3-streaming-movemail to pop3-movemail.
`----
> And why not just use IMAP instead?
Some mail providers don't offer IMAP (for free).
> If it's a popular way to read email, I can certainly have a peek at
> implementing an nnpop backend for Gnus...
Bye, Reiner.
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Re: [PATCH] GnuTLS support on Woe32, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/03/07
- Re: [PATCH] GnuTLS support on Woe32, Claudio Bley, 2011/03/07
- Re: [PATCH] GnuTLS support on Woe32, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/03/08
- Re: [PATCH] GnuTLS support on Woe32, Claudio Bley, 2011/03/09
- Re: [PATCH] GnuTLS support on Woe32, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/03/09
- POP3 UIDL - pop3-leave-mail-on-server (was: [PATCH] GnuTLS support on Woe32),
Reiner Steib <=
- Re: POP3 UIDL - pop3-leave-mail-on-server, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/03/15
- Re: POP3 UIDL - pop3-leave-mail-on-server, chad, 2011/03/15
Re: [PATCH] GnuTLS support on Woe32, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/07