On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Tim-Christian Mundt <d...@tim-erwin.de> wrote: > Hi, > >> >> I know pop3 proto doesn't support folders, that I mean is a way to >> configure the server to do that. Maybe at global or at user level. >> It's like gmail behavior, when the user enables POP she can configure >> what to do with the messages downloaded. > > Usually, this is configured in the client. It will delete the downloaded > messages or just mark them read. That definitely needs to be possible. > However, I can't see how to additionally configure this on the server > side. The only thing could be to only mark mails as deleted instead of > deleting them directly and only delete after a week or so. Although > again this is a client feature if I'm not wrong. I can configure my > client to download and delete after x days. Let's keep it simple, > predictable and transparent.
Although the client can be configured to leave the messages in the server, the server doesn't do anything with these messages. So the MUA maintains a cache with some information about each message in order not to download them again, or to ask the server to remove they after a configured time. The point is that if the user reads the email using other client, messages which were downloaded, will be downloaded again (pop) or they are marked as unread (imap). For instance, when in gmail you activate 'mark downloaded messages as seen', the user never downloads the messages again using pop although she changes the computer, she doesn't loose the messages, and can view them as read using webmail or imap. Cheers Manolo > > Regards > Tim > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-dev-unsubscr...@james.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: server-dev-h...@james.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-dev-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-dev-h...@james.apache.org
