Re: Avoid POP3
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- Subject: Re: Avoid POP3
- From: Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 14:21:47 -0400
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On Wed, 18 May 2011 18:27:29 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
...
> Next time you need to configure a POP3 account tell me if you leave
> enable the "keep a copy in the server" setting. It's not the default, it
> never has been in any MUA, or not in any I'm aware of. I don't think how
> is that so hard to understand.
Getmail defaults to not deleting messages that it has retrieved via any
protocol, including POP. From its documentation:
"delete (boolean) — if set, getmail will delete messages after
retrieving and successfully delivering them. If unset, getmail will
leave messages on the server after retrieving them. Default: False."
Admittedly, it's an MDA rather than an MUA.
...
> Of course, there are also fetchmail and getmail for that task and you can
> instruct both applications to keep a copy in the server.
No need to instruct getmail to do so, it's the default, as above. I
have to manually invoke it with the '-d' flag, or use the 'delete'
keyword in the config files, to get deletion.
Celejar
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