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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: How can I disable APOP support?
From:       Mario Weilguni <mweilguni () sime ! com>
Date:       2000-03-06 6:50:16
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Am Son, 05 Mär 2000 schrieb Waldo Bastian:
> On Sun, 05 Mar 2000, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> > On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > The connection-based mode is invented for applications like KMail
> > > where the application wants to have tighter control over the
> > > connections made by the slave.
> >
> > Couldn't you just pass it as a "command-line" argument?
> >
> > pop://foo@bar:baz/1?apop=no
> >
> > maybe?
>
> That would be extermely ugly design. Technicaly it would be possible.

I disagree. Why is this ugly design? If you pass command per url, why not 
pass the options as well. This is a simple, logical and elegant concept, much 
better than passing some information in an URL, and passing other information 
as some sort of IOCTL's.

Ciao,
	Mario

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