[pmmail-list] Incomplete email downloads

[Simon Wright]

>Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 11:48:30 +0100
>From: "Paul Hodges" <paul@qbss.com>
>
>On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 05:23:51 -0500, Larry Alkoff wrote:
>
>>  Apparently when PMMail "deletes" an email from the server this does not physically 
take place
>>  until the entire run for the account completes sucessfully but I don't know if this 
behavior is from
>>  PMMail or RoadRunner.
>
>This behaviour is specified by the POP3 standard.  It has been
>suggested that PMMail be modified to download only a certain number
>of messages before logging off the server and on again, but this is
>not done at present (nor by any client I know of).  Remote control is

Fetchmail can be configured to do this, downloading a specified max. number of 
messages, logging off and allowing the POP server to delete these messages and 
then logging on again. There is a version on Hobbes.

HTH.

-- 
Simon Wright
diver zero six at gmx dot net
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