Re: POP3
On Saturday 19 December 2015 00:28:35 David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 18 Dec 2015 at 15:36:05 (+0000), Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Friday 18 December 2015 15:27:08 David Wright wrote:
> > > On Fri 18 Dec 2015 at 10:32:01 (+0000), Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > > On Friday 18 December 2015 09:49:59 Brian wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > Also, run 'fetchmail --version' for debugging info.
> > > > >
> > > > > The guts of my ~/.fetchmailrc are
> > > > >
> > > > > poll <POP3 server>
> > > > > proto pop3
> > > > > user <Could be bob or bob@example.com>
> > > > > password <secret>
> > > > > ssl <May or may not be needed. Depends on the server>
> > > > >
> > > > > 'fetchmail -c -v' for testing.
> > > >
> > > > Having just by implication been told by someone that only muggles,
> > > > lusers and/or dinosaurs use POP3, how many others of us will admit to
> > > > it? (For the avoidance of doubt, I use POP3.)
> > > >
> > > > I won't admit to being a muggle or a luser (who, me?), but I am often
> > > > prepared to admit to being a dinosaur. However, in this case I
> > > > actually don't agree with the premise. Feel free to tell me that I
> > > > am deluding myself and that I am indeed a dinosaur in this as well.
> > > >
> > > > I just don't, for my use, like a lot of what IMAP does.
> > >
> > > Not sure what this has to do with "command not found" and,
> > > in particular, "command not found [SOLVED]".
> >
> > It hasn't. But it is a continuation of the thread and I quoted from a
> > mail in the thread. It does say "was" not "is" in the subject.. But it
> > makes clear I am not hijacking, but splitting the thread. You have
> > removed and not quoted the "was".
>
> Of course I removed the "was": it wasn't in the subject line of the
> post you were responding to.
>
> If there's a thread under "Discussion of how to configure and run
> fetchmail" and someone responds with "Straw-poll on the popularity of
> POP3, was Discussion of how to configure and run fetchmail", how does
> the presence of "was" make one subject relevant to the other?
>
> I just can't see the connection between helping someone get their
> fetchmail installed and running, and whether people (and how many) are
> "embarrassed to be" still running POP3 rather than IMAP.
>
> And why is almost all this thread tagged {SOLVED]? It might be
> justified if there was a solution to a well defined problem which was
> now being refined; forgive me if I missed something but Gene asked like-
> wise in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/12/msg00436.html
> to which I have as yet seen no response.
OK. That is a valid and different point. Splitting a thread off when it
wanders is also usually, although obviously not by you, an accepted practice.
Had I trimmed as you suggested, people on, say, Gmail wouldn't even have
known where to look for my quotation.
The OP obviously just saw"SOLVED" as meaning "I'm OK now I don't need any more
help". The archives could indeed do with a little more - but people vary
between those who don't even bother saying that their problem is fixed and
those who actually instruct everyone else to stop discussing "their" thread
when they are bored.
Gene, and you, may yet get an answer.
Lisi
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