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- From: gene_heskett@wvlink.mpl.com (Gene Heskett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Amiga Mail Clients - Leave Mail Properly?
- Date: 19 Mar 96 10:01:38 +0500
- Organization: MountainNet, Inc. Morgantown WV 800.444.1458
- Message-ID: <1919.6652T601T1923@wvlink.mpl.com>
- References: <4ihgiv$9i0@earth.alpha.net> <1381.6650T1317T713@user1.channel1.com>
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- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP)
-
-
- >>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.
-
- >>--
- >>Rick Miller __ rmiller@execpc.com Milwuakee,
- >>Wisconsin
- >> Amiga 2500 \/ B2 f+ t+ w- g+ k++ Fidonet: Richard Miller
- >> 1:154/280
-
- EDJ> As someone else already said, Thor can be configured to delete
- EDJ> your mail from the server so that you don't download it twice.
- EDJ> The only times that I've downloaded mail twice was when I lost
- EDJ> my connection during the download. Then Thor will get it again
- EDJ> until it has downloaded all of your mail. I think even this can
- EDJ> be configured so that you don't have to go back and get that
- EDJ> mail again. In addition, if you think you've downloaded
- EDJ> duplicates, there is a menu option to delete them.
-
- EDJ> Eric D. Jackson
-
- EDJ> ejack@user1.channel1.com
-
- Thor also has an option box for the delete function. I've never
- unchecked it tho, cause it does it so well as is. If I wanna keep the
- msg, I keep it on *my* drive insteada taking up space on the ISP's
- machine.
-
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