From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82366 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: POP3 UIDL - pop3-leave-mail-on-server Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:36:01 +0900 Organization: Emacsen advocacy group Message-ID: References: <87ipvwl1nx.wl%claudio.bley@gmail.com> <87hbbewr7o.wl%claudio.bley@gmail.com> <87ei6g0yph.wl%claudio.bley@gmail.com> <87lj0ne4og.fsf_-_@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349388667 14138 80.91.229.3 (4 Oct 2012 22:11:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 22:11:07 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30632@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 05 00:11:12 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TJtZV-0001gv-7T for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:07:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1TJrju-0000I1-Q8; Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:09:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1TJrjr-0000Hm-Vk for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:09:43 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TJrjq-0005BW-0E for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:09:43 -0500 Original-Received: from orlando.hostforweb.net ([216.246.45.90]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TJrjn-00089s-Nk for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2012 22:09:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35185) by orlando.hostforweb.net with smtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1TIeIA-0001hV-HR for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2012 06:36:06 -0500 X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`;Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu;B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCPz8bKEI=?= Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2.50 (i686-pc-cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+mtHrcKl5hb2qVggCKJo30jAVnw= X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - orlando.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnus.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jpl.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:82366 Archived-At: 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).