Chris Green:
> So - what I am beginning to do is move over to a mail program which
> has a good POP3 implementation (I'm pretty well settled on tkrat at
> the moment though Mahogany shows promise). This allows me to set up
> folders in my mail program which correspond to the POP3 mailboxes, I
> can read my POP3 mail from anywhere and delete the unwanted messages
> but *leave* the ones that I want to see still when I'm somewhere else.
I, too, have the problem of wanting to receive mail from the same POP3
mailbox in two places. What I do is run fetchmail with "keep" at both
places.
If I receive an uninteresting message at one place and delete it, it
still gets downloaded at the other place and I have to delete it
again, which isn't ideal.
Also, I found I had problems when I never deleted anything on the
server. With about 2000 messages in my mailbox, Demon's POP3 server
started failing for me occasionally. (I think it timed out
internally.) So, when I download e-mail in one place and I know that
the last time I downloaded e-mail was in the other place, then I try
to remember to run fetchmail with "--flush". This isn't ideal, either.
I'd really like a way for mail to be deleted automatically from the
server as soon as it has been downloaded to both places. But I asked
about this on fetchmail-friends without getting a response, I think.
(By the way, have you been bitten by the way Demon's POP3 server
occasionally finds it can only contact one of Demon's two mailstores
but carries on anyway? Half the messages seem to disappear, then
reappear again later. If fetchmail has thrown away the UIDs, you get
them all downloaded a second time, junking up your local mailbox. I
suppose you'd have to modify fetchmail to store UIDs with a timestamp
of when the message with that UID was last seen ... One reason for
trying not to forget "--flush" is to make the consequences of this
problem less severe. Fifty I can cope with, but getting 1000 old
messages redelivered is not fun ...)
Edmund
