John K said:
I am pretty sure Vint knows what the protocol says. So,
certainly, do I.
In the real world, several ISPs have insisted that their servers
provide an implicit DELE after messages have been successfully
downloaded and the connection closed. If leaving the mail on
the server (not DELEting them until you tell it to) is
important, you could, of course, choose an ISP that doesn't do
that automatic/ implicit delete. But, because there are ISPs
that do the automatic delete, Shelby's claim (as I understand
it) that his system will work with any POP3 mailbox and server
is not quite correct.
john
Dan says:
Another way to do this is via EHLO and then your client would have to
subscribe to the "feature" of some timed self delete or you would be denied
access totally. This would make sure the user is given a heads up on the
whole thing.
This would be super clean. Your program (in your national language) warns
you the server is going to enforce some message removal method.
With the excellent thinking in the development of these... I'm surprised
that's not how it works.
regs,
Dan