At 9:58 AM +0530 1/4/03, Rishi Gangoly wrote:
Update-on-abort causes Qpopper to enter UPDATE state even if the session aborts. In UPDATE state, messages marked for deletion are purged from the spool. If OE doesn't mark the messages for deletion, they won't get deleted.HiI would like to know if there is a way to configure my e-mail client (Outlook Express 6) or the POP server (Qpopper) to delete a message after it gets downloaded. Currently, if I am downloading my messages (about 80-100 messages a day) and due to slow internet speeds my connection times-out or my modem get's disconnected, I have to start downloading all my messages again, which results in a whole lot of duplicated email in my INBOX. I get to understand that the deletions happen as a batch at the end of the POP session. I've checked OE.. no joy. However, I've seen an option in Qpopper called "update-on-abort" which is enabled by default. But it does not seem to work. Here is what the man page says for this feature: ----- By default, Qpopper enters update state on a session abort. Disabling this option causes Qpopper to ignore any deletions if the session is aborted. Note that RFC 1939, section 6 prohibits the Qpopper default behaviour, but experience showed that otherwise users on noisy lines were often unable to delete their mail. Disable this option to inhibit the default behavior, and obey RFC 1939. ----- Any ideas on what to do? Regards Rishi
Try another client. I believe Eudora, for example, flushes messages to disk as they received and then marks them for deletion.
