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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: Tue, 19 Mar 96 17:06:38
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- Eric D. Jackson (ejack@user1.channel1.com) wrote:
- : Mathew Hendry wrote:
- : >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.
- :
- : 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?
-
- Well, perhaps he shares a POP3 mailbox with someone else, which means that all
- mails must remain there until both people have downloaded them. Pointless
- arguing really - he's probably found out all he needs to know by now ;)
-
- -- Mat.
-