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On Monday, August 17 at 12:32 PM, quoth Rocco Rutte:
> [ btw, any idea why your subject is truncated? ]

Huh... I hadn't noticed that. I haven't a clue. Is this one also 
truncated?

>> If you have no choice but to use POP3, I highly recommend you use 
>> mutt to access your POP3 server directly. With the message and 
>> header caching, it can be just as fast as a fetchmail-based option, 
>> and it handles things like deleted messages much better.
>
> That's only half true, please don't recommend the internal fetchmail 
> function for POP because it is partially broken 
> (http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/1751). Due to mutt's architecture, this 
> isn't as easy to fix as it sounds.

I wasn't thinking of the mutt "fetch_mail" thing, I was thinking of 
setting $folder to pop3://u...@host/. I was under the impression that 
that worked reasonably well. Am I wrong?

>> The problem, of course, is that POP3 has no means of "searching" 
>> messages other than by doing it the old fashioned way (download 
>> each one). Where IMAP gives each message a unique, long-term UID 
>> number, POP3 does not (it has UIDs, but they only last as long as 
>> the POP3 connection).

> RFC1939 has this on the UIDL command:

I stand corrected!

~Kyle
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