Re: Multiple POP accounts and personalities...

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 01:40:17PM +0000, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> > Have you ever stored a message in a POP3 folder without going
> > through the mail transport agent, i.e., without resending the
> > message?  There is no standard way to do this.
> 
> I'm not even aware of a non-standard way of doing it. And the other
> thing you can't do to a POP3 mailbox is adjust the flags at will. So a
> POP3 mailbox is like a semi-read-only mailbox: delete is the only
> state-changing operation you can do.
> 
Yes, I'll agree you can't save to a POP3 mailbox, but it's very rarely
that one saves mail back to the current maibox isn't it.  A POP3
mailbox can be presented to the user in much the same way as a local
one, it's just that one isn't allowed to save to it.

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