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Re: Avoid POP3



On Ma, 17 mai 11, 15:50:57, Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 17 May 2011 16:42:28 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> 
> >> On Tue, 17 May 2011 08:21:36 -0500
> >> John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> There is no way to read anything without downloading it.
> > 
> > Obvious :-)
> 
> Not that obvious :-P
> 
> I can read POP3 messages from my pop3 e-mail checker while I'm not 
> downloading them at all (I can even delete the messages I don't want to 
> keep) if by "downloading" we mean here "fetch the messages and remove 
> them from server".

That's stretching the definition of downloading a bit too much :p
In fact, with the exception of e-mail most downloads (thankfully) do not 
imply any sort of deleting from the servers ;)

Regards,
Andrei
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