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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Amiga Mail Clients - Leave Mail Properly?
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 96 16:47:24
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- Eric D. Jackson (ejack@user1.channel1.com) wrote:
- :
- : >Eric D. Jackson (ejack@user1.channel1.com) wrote:
- : >:
- : >: >In article <338.6649T637T1145@academy.bastad.se>,
- : >: >Sten <sten@academy.bastad.se> wrote:
- : >: >>In a message 15-Mar-96 04:23:33 about Amiga Mail Clients - Leave Mail
- : >: >>Properly? Sean Watts wrote:
- : >: >>
- : >: >>>Is there _any_ mail reader on the amiga that implements an option to
- : >: >>>leave mail on the server properly? That is, only downloads it once,
- : >: >>>rather than over and over?
- : >: >>
- : >: >>Yes, Thor does. It deletes the messages from the server after DL
- : >:
- : >: >Hmm, as I understood his question, he wanted to leave the mail on the
- : >: >server but have the reader recognize that it had downloaded it once and
- : >: >not do so again. Eudora for the ibmpc world does this, but I'm not aware
- : >: >of any Amiga mail reader which does.
- : >:
- : >: As someone else already said, Thor can be configured to delete your mail
- : >: from the server so that you don't download it twice.
- :
- : >That is not what he asked for. He wants the mail left on the server, not
- : >deleted.
- :
- : Thor can be configured to leave the mail on the server, too, I think. I just
- : didn't get the part that he had to leave it there. I thought he just didn't
- : want to download it again, as he said "over and over." I guess the question
- : is does he really want to leave it there or does he just not want to download
- : it twice. He actually said both.
-
- He wants to leave it on the server _and_ not have to repeatedly download it.
- This implies that the software used to download the mail must remember which
- posts have already been downloaded. I don't think Thor supports this.
-
- -- Mat.
-