Re: How to delete mail off the POP server after retrieval?
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Am Dienstag, 28. Januar 2003 17:30 schrieb Matt Sheffield:
> It's a little bit embarrassing that KMail doesn't have this feature.
> But the bug was filed on 31 Oct. of last year so perhaps it's not in
> high demand? AAR, even old Netscape 2.x had this feature way back in
> 1995, to say nothing of the other major clients.
In 1995, telnet was used, too.
I think that it would be totally wrong to implement this. IMAP is the way to
go for this. Just because Netscape did this (IIRC the only client program
doing so) does not mean in any way that it was smart. It is highly
inefficient. Additionally, most POP3 server use a mbox file for storing mail.
Every time, you check/get mail and do not delete it there makes it more
inefficient and slower to look for new mail. Well, the POP3-Servers that use
Maildir can do this a bit smarter but all such servers (AFAIK) that use
Maildir also offer IMAP (and both with SSL).
Well, there are things like uw-imapd (mbox based) but noone really wants to
use that (assumption: except those that do not know how to get Maildir
working).
And wow, Netscape <6 could not even do POP3S. This means that every time you
deleted a mail, it was sending you username and password as clear text
through the net (collecting the delete requests would be no reliable way, I
guess).
This feature would also need a track of the server that the locally saved mail
was from. IIRC, Netscape only offered that mail for the Inbox of the Server
but KMail does not work this way, especially with filters applied.
Again: you really want to think this over. This is totally bad habit and
should be avoided. If the KMail developers ever implement this, they did not
think it over enough.
HS
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