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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: Avoid POP3
From:       Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse ! net>
Date:       2011-05-18 14:32:01
Message-ID: 4DD3D861.8030509 () meetinghouse ! net
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Camaleón wrote:
> That's okay, but not for me (so I noted), at least not "technically
> speaking" in this context where pop3, due to its own nature, inherits by
> default a "download/fetch/get/retrieve and delete" action ;-)
>    

Nope.

The protocol is very specific - listing headers, downloading/reading 
messages, marking messages for deletion, and actually deleting messages 
(when a QUIT is issued) are very distinct operations that have to be 
executed via different protocol transactions.  There is no inherent 
combined download/fetch/get/retrieve/delete action.

There may be default actions set up in a client, but those are client 
and configuration specific.

There may be defaults and customizations on the server-side, but those 
are external to the protocol (if a server deletes messages after they're 
downloaded, that's completely outside the scope of POP3).





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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In<fnord>  practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra



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