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Re: [fetchmail] Re: keep and top

2003-05-26 10:50:24
Kee Hinckley <nazgul(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com> writes:

At 2:11 PM +0530 5/26/03, Sunil Shetye wrote:
 > TOP is different from RETR in one important way.  It doesn't set the
 message's seen bit.

I think it doesn't matter what mail flags are set on the server.
fetchmail with UIDL does not use or rely on any mail flags as reported
by the server. Complete tracking is done only on the client side.

I don't think that's the point.  The point is that fetchmail may not be
the only program accessing the server.  Some users may need to fetch
while leaving messages unread for *other* clients.

Other clients can use UIDL to figure what mail _they_ have read.

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Matthias Andree

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