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- From: ejack@user1.channel1.com (Eric D. Jackson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Amiga Mail Clients - Leave Mail Properly?
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 15:53:17 GMT
- Organization: Channel 1 Communications
- Message-ID: <2503.6651T916T1282@user1.channel1.com>
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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.
- I was trying to figure out why he wants to leave it there. Is he going to
- access it later? Or is he just having a problem because he is downloading
- the same mail "over and over?" In fact, with Thor the reason why you do
- download messages over and over again is because you left them on the server.
- The solution to that problem is to delete the messages from the server.
- I do understand what your saying. He wants to leave them on the server. But
- is the reason he wants to leave them because he doesn't want to download them
- "over and over" again? Or to use them later?
- I'm curious, if you leave your mail at a site, does your ISP consider that
- storage? Leaving mail at a site seems to be more than just a function of
- software.
-
- Eric D. Jackson
-
- ejack@user1.channel1.com
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