using pop or imap to get your messages?

Post #248,052 by boxley 3/15/06 9:01:44 PM Reply	using pop or imap to get your messages? if using pop and selecting save messages on server and you delete them locally they appear "new" again. thanx, bill Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 50 years. meep
Post #248,056 by drewk 3/15/06 9:07:20 PM Reply	What I want 1. New message comes in. I check it from Evolution. I delete it. It's gone from the server. 2. New message comes in. I check it from Evolution. I leave it. It stays on the server, but is marked as "not new". (Not sure of the implementation. Never thought about that detail before now.) Can Yahoo download only new items? Not sure. 3. New message comes in. I check from Yahoo. It is marked as read. In Evolution, I now see the header, but it is marked as read. I never thought about the implementation for this. Is "mark read" something that depends on my client? Or is it an attribute in the IMAP message store? === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #248,060 by boxley 3/15/06 9:22:33 PM Reply	dunno, since we dont use IMAP I havnt had a need to understand how it works :-) RFC's are your friend. thanx, bill Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 50 years. meep
Post #248,065 by drewk 3/15/06 9:59:50 PM Reply	I'm prefectly happy to leave this as one of those things ... ... Other People Worry About™. As long as I know how to set up my client, then quickly forget the uninteresting implementation details. === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #248,066 by static 3/15/06 10:05:52 PM Reply	If it's all IMAP, then yes, that's how it should work. I have three clients connecting to my own IMAP server and it works just as you described. You might want to check that all accesses to your mailbox are indeed via IMAP. 'Marked Read' is an IMAP attribute, yes. In actuality, it's not quite that simple because there's another flag that the server uses to show that no client has seen this email and they interact a little but. However, the interaction is documented in the RFC and it's not hard for clients to get it right. Wade. "Insert crowbar. Apply force."
Post #248,070 by drewk 3/15/06 10:48:13 PM Reply	Yahoo says it's POP only But it also has an option to only retrieve new mail. Still not sure how they'd implement it. Just going to try the option and see what happens. (But considering it's been months since I thought to check from the Yahoo account, I don't imagine I'm going to spend that much time working on it.) === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #248,074 by static 3/15/06 10:54:59 PM Reply	Then you have a problem. POP doesn't function very well with 'leaving mail behind' because that's not what it's designed for. There are hacks to do it, but there is special magic required in the client and a lot of them don't care. That's why Yahoo fetched all the email you have ever received: because as far as the server is concerned, you haven't received it yet. Even though Evolution is able to give you the fiction that you have. Wade. "Insert crowbar. Apply force."

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