Wish List Another Beginning
Norm
pmmail@rpglink.com
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:41:19 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 13:45:24, Brian Morrison wrote:
>> But since the vast majority of users are using POP3 the problem is
>>with the way POP3 operates, and IIRC (albeit I'm no POP3 expert) POP3
>>will not delete any messages until the entire 'fetch' process has
>>completed successfully.
>>
>
>Well, most of my PMMail use is with smtp but I do use POP3 with PMMail
>2000 at work. POP3 does not update the status of the mailbox until the
>user logs out. If the connection breaks, the messages marked for
>deletion are not deleted. This is a safety feature(tm) :-)
Exactly, and I don't see how they could code the client around it.
--
...Cheers,
...Norm
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