From: chad <yandros@gmail.com>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: POP3 UIDL - pop3-leave-mail-on-server
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:49:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8C34E5A3-516E-4A09-8A96-8A8A20ED3237@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3lj0gjrid.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Right. So pop3 can't leave mail on the server because nobody has
> bothered to reimplement the UIDL library? How much work could that be?
> [...]
> Since nobody has spoken up and said "yes, I would use nnpop", I'm
> guessing that there aren't many users (if any) that would still prefer
> to read mail (and leave it there) from their pop servers instead of from
> their IMAP servers.
FWIW, pop3 UIDL wasn't widely adopted (on either servers or clients) because (IMHO) it requires that the clients all be able to share a store of id's. That excludes a large subset of the desired users (for example, people who want to be able to also check mail from their mobile phone client).
It's still worth implementing, mind you - but these days most users will still prefer IMAP for a variety of reasons. (All IMHO, of course).
Hope that helps,
*Chad
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2011-03-10 8:54 ` POP3 UIDL - pop3-leave-mail-on-server (was: [PATCH] GnuTLS support on Woe32) Reiner Steib
2011-03-15 16:08 ` POP3 UIDL - pop3-leave-mail-on-server Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-15 17:49 ` chad [this message]
2011-03-15 20:54 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-15 21:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-16 14:30 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-16 17:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-16 18:51 ` Eric S Fraga
2012-10-01 11:36 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2012-10-05 9:38 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
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