Re: pop3-leave-mail-on-server

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Fri, Oct 22 2004, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:

> I think the `pop3-leave-mail-on-server' feature is insufficient.
> There's only a function to leave mails on the server.  Whenever
> a user types `g', Gnus fetches the same mails again and again.

I'm not happy with this neither, see
<news:v9mzypb0ea.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> and the doc string.

> Why don't we add the UIDL support to pop3.el?  It records
> fetched mails and doesn't make Gnus fetch them again.  There is
> already a version of pop3.el which supports it.  

IIRC the XEmacs version supports it to, but I have no idea about the
assignment status there.

> It is necessary to modify mail-source.el slightly and the advice for
> it is included there.
>
> http://cvs.m17n.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/root/gnus/lisp/pop3.el?rev=1.6.30.21.4.10

If you are sure who wrote the UIDL code an he has assigned it, we
should probably add it to v5-10 (as a bug fix), too.

> In addition, it also supports SSL and TLS.  Those features were
> mostly written by Daiki Ueno, who is found in the AUTHORS file.

Sounds rather like new features than a bug fix to me.  Thus it should
only be installed in the trunk (No Gnus).

Bye, Reiner.
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