From: Adrian Aichner <adrian@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: Deleting mail from server with pop3
Date: 12 May 2002 23:23:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <r8kh83i3.fsf@smtprelay.t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pu015e18.fsf@morpheus.demon.co.uk>
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Moore <gustav@morpheus.demon.co.uk> writes:
Hi Paul,
Paul> If I understand the code correctly (*not* a foregone
Paul> conclusion :-)) gnus uses pop3.el from the xemacs mail-lib
Paul> package to do POP3 retrieval of mail. The sequence of events
The XEmacs gnus package does, yes.
Paul> when retrieving mail is: first, retrieve messages 1..N, then
Paul> delete messages N..1.
Paul> I have a problem with this. My ISP has a tendency towards
Paul> randomly dropping the connection. When this happens during a
Paul> mail retrieval, I get a load of downloaded messages which
Paul> haven't been deleted off the server. This has two
Paul> consequences - first, there is a big chunk of data which
Paul> gets downloaded twice, and second, mail gets duplicated (if
Paul> I let the crashbox be processed) or lost (if I delete the
Paul> crashbox).
Paul> What I would prefer would be to delete each message
Paul> immediately after it has been downloaded. I looked at the
Paul> code in pop3.el, and there doesn't seem to be a way to
Paul> achieve this as the code stands. And my elisp skills are
Paul> definitely not up to something like this...
Paul> Does anyone know of a way of achieving something like this?
Paul> Or alternatively, am I doing something wrong? If the
Paul> connection drops while pop3 is downloading or deleting
Paul> messages, is there a way of recovering *without* getting
Paul> duplicate messages?
I am using
(setq nnmail-treat-duplicates 'delete)
and don't have to worry about any duplicates.
This does not fix the double download problem, though.
In some cases I have to go and move ~/.uidls out of the way when Gnus
does not want to download mails, which I had previously disqualified
via
(setq pop3-maximum-message-size 524288)
Adrian
Paul> Thanks, Paul (Just finished trawling through a couple of
Paul> hundreds of spam messages, each duplicated 3 times :-()
Paul> PS "Get a new ISP" is a reasonable suggestion, but
Paul> unfortunately not practical...
--
Adrian Aichner
mailto:adrian@xemacs.org
http://www.xemacs.org/
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2002-05-12 20:05 Paul Moore
2002-05-12 21:23 ` Adrian Aichner [this message]
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2002-05-14 7:42 ` Scott Gifford
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