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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Bug#21104: pop server read flag handling
From:       Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=E4ckel?= <Michael () Haeckel ! Net>
Date:       2001-03-01 9:25:18
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On Thursday,  1. March 2001 03:08, apapadop@brad.ac.uk wrote:
>
> Obviously Kmail has some means of flagging the messages "on" the mail
> server as read, after downloading them. I don't want to delete them from
> the server.

No, KMail has not. However some pop server change the status when mails are 
fetched.
However KMail remembers, which mails it has already downloaded by using the 
UID of the mail. This information is stored in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/.

> Problem is, when I telnet to my server and erase some old messages, KMail
> gets confused and the next check tries to re-fetch ALL of my messages.
> (Netscape has some way of not doing this and correctly knowing how to fetch
> only the new messages - no matter how much the mailbox has changed).

Then most likely your server or the software you use for deleting the mails 
changes the UID of every mail for some reason I don't understand. At least 
with my server that works without any problem.

As long you dont examine that more closely yourself, I can't help.

There is also the LAST command to check which mail was downloaded last, but 
that doesn't work properly on some servers and leads to trouble, if you leave 
the mails on the server on more than one mail client.

Regards,
Michael Häckel
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