Re: POP3 UIDL - pop3-leave-mail-on-server

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

Reiner Steib wrote:
> It has been requested quite often.

I started the test for a new UIDL support for pop3.el.

> See the comments around `pop3-leave-mail-on-server'...
[...]

Now that is:
,----
| Non-nil if the mail is to be left on the POP server after fetching.
| Mails once fetched will never be fetched again.  If this is neither nil
| nor a number mails are to be left on the POP server after fetching.
| If this is a number leave mails on the server for this many days since
| you last checked new mails.  The `:leave' keyword, specified in a mail
| source, overrides this value.
`----

This implementation is my original, not a copy of the XEmacs
version (the mail-source interface is borrowed from my hack made
in Semi-gnus), so it has no copyright porblem I believe.  I'll
commit this to Gnus (not Emacs because of the feature freeze)
within a month.

If you'd like to try it, get two files in:
ftp://ftp.jpl.org/pub/tmp/pop3+uidl/
(or http://www.jpl.org/ftp/pub/tmp/pop3+uidl/ )

A mail source example:

(pop :server "SERVER.NAME"
     :user "USER.NAME"
     :password "********"
     :leave 7)

>> And why not just use IMAP instead?
> Some mail providers don't offer IMAP (for free).