From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/128 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Peter Davis" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Close, but not complete, POP3 solutions for gnus Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:16:52 -0500 Organization: Bitstream Inc. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667226 5746 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:27:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:27:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:27:07 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet01.sei.cmu.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsreader.wustl.edu!stl-feed.news.verio.net!news.cmnh.org!phl-feed.news.verio.net!news.bitstream.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.103.147.252 Original-X-Trace: news.bitstream.com 1017073070 6342 199.103.147.252 (25 Mar 2002 16:17:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: sysops@bitstream.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Mar 2002 16:17:49 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:268 Original-Lines: 40 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 268 Tue Jan 17 17:27:07 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:128 Archived-At: "Seth Delackner" wrote in message news:r8mb938u.fsf@jtan.com... > Garglemonster writes: > > >>>>> "Seth" == Seth Delackner 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