Re: Close, but not complete, POP3 solutions for gnus

["Peter Davis" <pdavis@pageflexinc.com>]

"Seth Delackner" <seth@jtan.com> wrote in message
news:r8mb938u.fsf@jtan.com...
> Garglemonster <garglemonster@my-deja.com> writes:
> > >>>>> "Seth" == Seth Delackner <seth@jtan.com> writes:
> >     Seth> and I don't think fetchmail has a way to delete messages
> >     Seth> from the server after you locally delete them.
> >
> > i'm a little confused by what you've written here, but fetchmail -k
> > keeps the mail on the server and fetchmail -F flushes it, i.e.,
> > deletes all previously fetched mail.  i would think that it would be
> > possible to coordinate local mail and pop server mail through
> > judicious use of these arguments.
>
> I knew that wasn't well worded as soon as I hit C-c C-c.  My work pop3
> server has email that I never want to delete.  It is also reliably
> backed up.  My local machine is barely backed up at all.  So when I
> fetch pop3, I want to get all new messages and then leave everything
> 'archive quality' in the server.  This means everything that is not
> random banter stays.  Fetchmail is all or nothing, other apps allow
> you to just delete the junk you only wanted to read and then discard.

The epop3mail package doesn't quite do this, but it does do two important
things:

1) Let's you leave all messages on a POP3 server, and

2) Let's you browse a message list on a POP3 server, and selectively delete
individual messages from that server.

It would seem that this latter capability (epop3-manage-mailbox) could be
turned into an automatic expunge-on-delete function by someone clever enough
(that lets me out), which would finally give gnus some useful POP3
functionality.

-pd