From kmail-devel  Sun Oct 15 21:19:40 2000
From: Don Sanders <sanders () kde ! org>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 21:19:40 +0000
To: kmail-devel
Subject: Re: Remove "Retrieve all Mail" ? (Bug#12962: kmail: CRITCAL)
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kmail-devel&m=97164437611533

On Sunday 15 October 2000 20:23, Michael Haeckel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think, we should remove the option to download all mail from the server.
> There is no use for it anymore. 

It is very useful for the case when you check the same pop account from 
multiple machines. On one machine, the master machine, you may want to 
retrieve all messages, so that you have a copy of all your messages on that 
machine.

On other machines you just want to catch up on new stuff but leave the mail 
on the server so that it can still be collected at your master machine.

>It only produces bug reports like this one.

We made "retrieve all mail" turned off by default to reduce the number of 
such reports. We do need some kind of FAQ for stuff like.

>
> The UIDs work very well and after a sucessfull mail check all mails are
> deleted, if the user wants to. I don't see a reason, why it is useful to
> download mails twice.
>
> But that can wait for after the release.

BFN,
Don.

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