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Re: [h-e-w] Re: Gnus, anyone?


From: Adam P.
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Re: Gnus, anyone?
Date: 22 Dec 2001 18:14:50 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1

Peter Davis <address@hidden> writes:
> At 07:46 AM 12/22/2001, you wrote:
> >address@hidden (Adam P.) writes:
> >
> > > But, I must honestly admit it, I still didn't manage to make it leave
> > > mail on pop3 server...
> >
> >Although that can be done, it may be wise not to do so. It sort of
> >violates the POP3 standard.
> 
> Yes, trying to use a POP server as an IMAP server is definitely a
> mistake.  However, in most cases that I'm aware of, the
> leave-on-server feature is used only as a temporary measure, such as
> when the user wants to read e-mail both at home and at work, but want
> to have to have a complete repository in one place or another.

That's exactly my case, so why not take advantage of a feature if
it's there?

> The epop3mail package also includes a nifty utility called
> epop3-manage-mailbox, which lets you probe all the messages on your
> POP server, and delete individual ones while leaving others.

Thanks!  I'll give it a try!

        Adam




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