Wish List Another Beginning

[Jonathan B. Bayer]

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On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:41:19 -0500 (EST), Norm wrote:

>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.


What they can do is to periodictly log out and log back in.  That would
allot the POP3 server to delete a certain number of messages.  This
would be a fairly simple fix, one field on the account properties page
to specify the number of messages to fetch in a single connection, and
then a counter to count how many message have been downloaded during
the current connection, then just a few more lines to close a
connection and re-open it (if needed).  I'm assuming the the code to
close a connection is in a separate function, same for opening a
connection.

A bit of a hack, but very useful.  I too have had the problem of
downloading nearly a thousand messages after a vacation, and having the
connection get broken because of a dropped phone line, then having to
do it all over again.  What a pain!

JBB
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