2010/1/22 Stefano Bagnara <[email protected]>:
> 2010/1/22 Robert Burrell Donkin <[email protected]>:

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>>
>> IMAP sets flags based on SMTP. JavaMail sets flags based on SMTP but
>> not compatibly. IMAP-vs-POP3 eg POP3 delete has different semantics
>> from IMAP's delete so separate flags are needed. (i suspect that most
>> users wouldn't expect mail to disappear from IMAP just because a mail
>> client has been configured with autodeletion.)
>
> Great! I never thought at this. So you say that a single user
> "mailstore" accessed with both IMAP and POP3 should not delete email
> when accessed via pop3 with the delete on ? I don't know how other
> products work with this regard: have you done any "survey" ? The only
> one I know is Gmail and when you delete in POP3 it doesn't indeed
> deletes your email for real. This is not only a change in the
> "interface" of the repository but also a change in the functional
> behaviour of the repository (or of our pop3 implementation).
> (I'm not against, this, just trying to collect requirements, ideas).
>

In dovecot and courier when you delete an email via pop3 its gone.. I
think thats the right solution.

Bye,
Norman

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