From: Seth Delackner <seth@jtan.com>
Subject: Re: Close, but not complete, POP3 solutions for gnus
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 07:01:46 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <r8mb938u.fsf@jtan.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wmpr8mcvycq.fsf@nefastis.disorg>
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 problem i have with fetchmail is more political: it's esr-ware.
> gun-toting anarcho-capitalists? no thanks.
Not going to jump into THAT snake pit. You do realize though that you
are reading this using Emacs, a program that was built with the love
of "anarcho-capitalist" hands, right? (Well, from your perspective,
worse! They want EVERYTHING to be free, whereas the Open Source people
just want everything that touches their golden fingers.)
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2002-03-23 1:58 ` Garglemonster
2002-03-23 7:01 ` Seth Delackner [this message]
2002-03-25 16:16 ` Peter Davis
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