Feature Request--All Versions

[Paul Wiener]

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999 21:56:20 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:

>On Fri, 2 Apr 1999 01:47:11 -0700, Paul Wiener wrote:
>
>>Something just happened to me that I'm sure happens to many of us from time
>>to time. I started PMMail and it came up, started a fetch for my main
>>account, and said I had 36 messages on queue, and that it was getting message
>>#1. A short time later, I noticed it was still on message 1, and no
>>percentage had appeared. When I looked again a minute later, it was still
>>stuck in same status. I decided something had probably gone wrong with my POP
>>link and so I closed and restarted PMMail.
>
>I like to see a feature where you may disconnect PMMail in the midst of a receive operation so that you
>could reconnect at some later time and only receive what you haven't got.  That of course implies that
>the mailer has to delete what was read at disconnect time, but I would be surprised if that was
>difficult to accomplish.
>
>Regards, Erik P. Olsen

Good idea, Erik, but a good number of us have been asking for a simple disconnect
feature for so long that we've kind of given up hope of ever getting it. That's why I
am now requesting an even simpler auto-fetch override feature.

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