On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 03:35:05AM -0500, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> > What I need is to be able to view my POP3 'folder' and delete
> > individual messages. Most of the newer Unix/Linux MUAs do in fact
> > work this way with POP3 folders, it makes them look just like ordinary
> > local folders to the user. Using fetchmail with mutt can't do this at
> > all.
>
> Well, it sounds like what you really want is to use POP as a mailbox format
> instead of a transportation protocol. I agree it would be cool if Mutt
> could do this, and I think it's proper, as it's not doing MDA work in that
> case... provided it doesn't violate any POP specifications, but I've no
> idea on that. I doubt it would.
>
Yes, that's *exactly* what I want and it's what quite a few of the
more recent Linux/Unix MUAs are doing. You can't make POP3
mailbox/folders look exactly the same as local folders and IMAP folders
but you can get things close enough so that it's reasonably easy for
the user to treat it much the same.
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