Wish List Another Beginning

[Brian Morrison]

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:35:06 -0400 (AST), Trevor Smith wrote:

>If messages are marked for deletion on a POP3 server and no QUIT
>command ever comes (because the connection was dropped), are they
>still marked for deletion the next time you connect? If so, why not
>just look for this state and not download them again?
>

NO they are not, the POP3 server times out the connection and makes no
change to the account state unless it sees a QUIT command first.

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Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk
              do you know how far this has gone?
               just how damaged have I become?
                                      'Even Deeper' by Nine Inch Nails