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- From: oahvenla@neppari.cs.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
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- Subject: Re: Amiga Mail Clients - Leave Mail Properly?
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 12:32:42 +0200
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- In-reply-to: alessan@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz's message of 22 Mar 1996 20:03:14
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- In article <4itms2$iuj@atlantis.atlantis.actrix.gen.nz> alessan@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (Sean Watts) writes:
- >Actually, it's because I access my account from a variety of locations,
- >and the last one of the day is usually direct to unix, at which point I
- >make a last check of the mail to ensure it's dealt with, _then_ delete
- >it.
-
- Then IMAP would be the ideal choice of protocols for
- you. Unfortunately, it is not that widely supported. I gave some
- thought to implementing IMAP for Voodoo, but service providers with
- IMAP servers available are rare, and even in the university
- environment where they are most useful, the clients are not too
- common, and thus evryone would use POP anyway. And the two don't mix
- that well.
-
- >So far, the only thing I've found which provides the functionality nicely
- >is Eudora Pro - it doesn't care even if it's new mail or not, if it
- >hasn't seen it, it copies it down. But if it has seen it, it ignores it.
- >That's all I want an Amiga mailer to do.
-
- If you use POP to transfer mail, you don't get a choice of looking at
- message headers beforehand to decide whether you've seen it
- already. This means that if messages are kept on the server, a POP
- client must download all of them. POP gives you a chance of choosing
- messages by number, but as those numbers are valid only within a
- session, they are useless for this.
-
- What Eudora does (unless some private POP extension is available or
- used) is to download all of the messages regardless, and then filter
- out the ones it remembers seeing before.
-
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