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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:44:30 -0500
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] gmail's new POP features + upas/fs
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> I suppose we could add a "gmail compatibility" flag to upas/fs/pop3
> to stop it from deleting its copies of messages except by
> explicit local request.  This would allow it to be used for
> fetching stuff (once) from gmail to be copied to a local mailbox.

I don't think this makes much sense, since it will
only last until you reboot your terminal, and then
there go your messages.  You really want to just
download them with a trivial pop fetch program,
or forward them to your Plan 9 account directly,
so that they'll be on disk in your mbox.  Either
way you're maintaining two separate mailboxes
now.

Russ