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On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, Paul Gwillim wrote...

> I had a strange occurrence yesterday when my mail was continuallyB
> downloaded, over and over.

> Does anyone know if messages on the server are deleted individually
> or in bulk at the end of all the downloads?

  A POP3 server will delete the mails after the QUIT has been issued.
  Each mail that is deleted gets flagged for deletion, but the delete
  never occurs until after QUIT is issued. So if something interrupts
  before the QUIT, the mail will stick on the server.

,----- [ DELE command - RFC 1939 ]
| The POP3 server marks the message as deleted. Any future reference
| to the message-number associated with the message in a POP3 command
| generates an error. The POP3 server does not actually delete the
| message until the POP3 session enters the UPDATE state.
`-----

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Jonathan Angliss
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