Darryl Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> A user is trying to POP his mail. He's got quite a huge amount of
> messages, and would like to leave them on the server.
Well, he really should be using IMAP, then. POP3 was not really designed
for this.
> As i understand it, the POP client should send the LAST command to see
> what messages are "new", and then only do a RETR from that number
> forward. Yes?
No. "LAST" is obsolete. Instead, his client should be using UIDL to get a
unique identifier for the message, and keep track of the returned identifiers
so it knows which messages it has already seen.
<plug> getmail, a POP3 retriever, does this. Get it at freshmeat.net. </plug>
Charles
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