Hello DZ-Jay, Monday, July 28, 2003, 5:23:00 PM, you wrote:
DJ> Some time around 7/27/2003 22:23:11, I think I heard Thomas Fernandez say: >>> I do not remember when the behaviour was changed (because that was not >>> added to the changelog), but I think it works this way even in the >>> (old) Beta you have. >> Thanks for the info. :-) I have just set one account from "leave on >> server" to "delete", and if I get I will try to manually break the >> internet connection during download next time there is a bunch of >> messages there. I will report back. DJ> Oh, trust me, I go through this almost every day (very crappy Dial-up DJ> connection. :) I have it set to "delete" and if my internet connection DJ> (or the POP3 session) breaks without finishing properly messages are DJ> re-downloaded next time. This is because POP3 RFC states that the DJ> "update" state of the mail server -- in which the mailbox is updated DJ> and messages are actually deleted -- only occurs when the QUIT command DJ> is sent. No matter how many "DELE n" command you send, if the QUIT DJ> command is not sent (i.e. the transaction was interrupted), the DJ> mailbox will not be updated. I believe that some mailservers DJ> (QPOPPER in BSDi) have an option to update the mailbox on the fly to DJ> avoid this, but I don't think its too common. DJ> This is in TB 1.62r. I'm looking forward for the next version, since DJ> they say the behaviour has been corrected. That would be nice as at present I get chopped every few minutes... The reason I originally asked for delete all dupes but getting them zapped from the server as well would be even better... -- Best regards, tracer ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
