[pmmail-list] abandoning individual message retrieval

[Guillaume Gay]

Hi,
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 22:17:38 +0000 (GMT), Paul Ratcliffe wrote:

>There is no support in POP3 for abandoning individual message retrieval 
>once it has started. The only way is to drop the connection to the 
>server entirely.
>For RFC compliant servers, this would mean all the mail you have 
>downloaded during the current connection would be left on the server 
>and you would probably end up downloading it again, which I guess would 
>cause much grief.
Not if the user is aware of the side effect of such an option...

If it can prevent me from closing and re-opening PMMail I would definately 
like the option to be added in the remote control dialog (at least - as 
well as the new progress meter and many other things (;-))

Bye for now.

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