I'm looking for the answer to the very same question. I'd like people
to be able to check their messages via the web, but also have access to
them from other mail clients. My solution was to copy their mail
messages to a database, but then I run into the problem of CFPOP not
knowing which messages on the server have already been downloaded.
I wondered if it would be simpler to just download all the messages
again, and then run some kind of comparison to look for duplicates in
the table. But that sounds kinda time-consuming.
I know that mail programs like Outlook and Netscape leave a file on
your mail server that acts as a kind of placeholder so they know where
they left off. I wonder if a combination of CFPOP and CFMAIL could do
the same thing?
-- Owen
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Athens County Library Services
http://www.athenscounty.lib.oh.us
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 11:11 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: CFPOP's MessageNumber
>
>
> If I do a CFPOP with ACTION="GetAll" and then later do an
> ACTION="Delete", how does CF keep track of which message I'm referring
> to? What if in the meantime another process had deleted one
> or more of
> the messages returned in the original call to CFPOP - will message #10
> still be the message I thought it was? I suspect it will
> simply be the
> 10th message returned by the mail server whenever the delete action is
> run and the wrong one message would be deleted from the server.
>
> A variation on this, which is what I'm trying to do: I'd
> like to have a
> CF program, using CFPOP, retrieve messages from a mailbox,
> _not_ delete
> the messages, then in subsequent runs, retrieve only new messages
> (similar to the way an email client might operate)? I understand the
> STARTROW attribute, but once again, it doesn't seem to
> address starting
> at a specific message, simply at the Nth message. What if
> messages had
> been deleted since the last program execution - won't that throw this
> STARTROW point off? Is there any other way of identifying a specific
> message and saying "retrieve every message after this one"?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
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