Greg White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Does anyone know of a POP server that exhibits this behaviour OOTB? I
> know Qpopper does not, nor does (obviously) qmail-pop3d. I don't recall
> ever having this work transparently, with any combination of clients or
> servers (and I've run quite a few combinations of both in my time...)
> Anytime, anywhere, multiple clients accessing the same mailbox seem to
> treat a message read by the other client as new and unread.
It's more of a POP3 protocol limitation than an implementation issue --
the POP3 has limited support for server-side client state with the LAST
command IIRC, but it's poorly supported and doesn't give a 100% solution
to the problem anyway.
POP3 just wasn't designed for this; it was designed to move mail from
the server to the client, not to enable remote access to a mailbox. If
that's what you need, IMAP is much better suited to this.
Charles
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