R: R: leave a copy of messages on server

[Andrea Cerrito]

Mmmmhhh, I don't think it's possible.

Anyway, you can set a crontab to delete old messages (ie: 30 days old) or you can set quota.

 

It's not advisable to make the delete mandatory because:

 

1) user may want to look his/her messages from a location, and to download them from another one,

2) the data transfer may fail for some reason (and you force deletion of a message unread by user)

 

Good work

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Cordiali saluti / Best regards
Andrea Cerrito
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Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A.
P.zzale Bosco 3A
05100 Terni IT
Tel. +39 744 5441330
Fax. +39 744 5441372

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: medi [mailto:medi]Per conto di Medi Montaseri
Inviato: luned� 21 maggio 2001 21.11
A: Andrea Cerrito
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oggetto: Re: R: leave a copy of messages on server

I have the opposit question, is it possible to mandate delete?
That is, can I mandate the all messages  be downloaded from a POP server?

Andrea Cerrito wrote:

Mmmmhhhh... strange.

A normal pop3 session is like

...
stat
retr #num
dele #num

and if you set "leave a copy..." the dele action is never done.
Try to telnet to your box and act as a mail client: you'll be able to know
if it's a problem with qmail (I don't think so, anyway) or with your client.

I mean

+OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
user $YOURUSER
+OK
pass $YOURPASS
+OK
stat
+OK 1 1228
retr 1
bla bla bla bla bla
quit
+OK

then reconnect and see if the message is still alive.
Good luck
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Cordiali saluti / Best regards
Andrea Cerrito
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A.
P.zzale Bosco 3A
05100 Terni IT
Tel. +39 744 5441330
Fax. +39 744 5441372

> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Roberto Marzialetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Inviato: luned� 21 maggio 2001 18.39
> A: Qmail List
> Oggetto: leave a copy of messages on server
>
>
> Hi boys
>
> have got a problem...
> well... if i active the option "leave a copy
> of messages on server " on my email client, the messages
> doesn't leave on my server :o((
>
> have you got some solution ?
>
> many thanks
>
> Roberto
>
>

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