Wish List Another Beginning

[Bill Wood]

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

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>On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:41:19 -0500 (EST), Norm wrote:
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>>On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 13:45:24, Brian Morrison wrote:
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>>>>     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.

... etc.

I don't know who manages the POP3 specification, but we
should send them a suggestion that the standard be
modified at the next revision to require a command that
deletes all msgs on the server that are marked for
deletion. This would seem to be a non-controversial
improvement. We may have a while to wait, but, in the
end, it is better to fix problems then to have to work
around them.

I don't like breaking my connection to my ISP because
sometimes it takes several tries to reestablish a good
one.

w3
w3

Bill Wood
Las Vegas, NV
wwwood@lv.rmci.net

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