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Re: Questions about nmh 1.1

2002-07-09 11:42:00
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"Ken" == Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)cmf(_dot_)nrl(_dot_)navy(_dot_)mil> 
writes:
    >> Something I need to put in is having inc delete messages after X many
    >> have been downloaded. That way I can survive a net outages or ^C easier.

    Ken> You mean via POP?  It deletes each message right after it retrieves
    Ken> it, 
    Ken> AFAIK.  I think that problem is that according to the POP3 spec,
    Ken> unless you 
    Ken> get a clean QUIT, you don't make any changes to the mailbox. 

  Hmm. That's probably what I experience.
  I want to sync the mailbox more often than that.

  I guess the obvious hack is to disconnect and reconnect again, but 
I wonder if can come up with something else.... perhaps I'll hack the server,
and maybe it is just time for IMAP :-)

]       ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine.           |  firewalls  [
]   Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON    |net architect[
] mcr(_at_)sandelman(_dot_)ottawa(_dot_)on(_dot_)ca 
http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ |device driver[
] panic("Just another NetBSD/notebook using, kernel hacking, security guy");  [



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