Wish List Another Beginning

[Norm]

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:49:38 -0500, Jonathan B. Bayer wrote:

>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.


     I believe this would have to work somewhat similar to PMMail's
'remote control' feature.  That might work, but having to pull the list
of everything in your inbox each time would be very time consuming.  Of
course IMAP4 would make all this moot ;-).

>
>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!


     I agree it's a problem.  I've had this happen several times, and
like you say it never seems to happen unless I have at least 700
messages waiting in my inbox...and deleting all those dupes is rather
time consuming too ;-).

--
 ...Cheers,

 ...Norm

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