On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 03:21:51PM +0100, Marco wrote: > On 2013–01–23 Paul Hoffman wrote: > > > After a mail client retrieves a message from a server using POP, the > > server typically deletes its copy of the message. > > That's new to me. Messages are retrieved with RETR. This command > only copies the message to the local machine. To delete a message > the command DELE is used. A server which deletes messages on a RETR > can be considered broken.
You're right, of course -- I should have said that the client typically asks the server to delete its (the server's) copy of a message after it's been retrieved. In other words, a successful RETR is typically followed by DELE. Paul. -- Paul Hoffman <nkui...@nkuitse.com>
