qpopper can be made to ignore "leave on server"
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Alan Thew alan.thew@???
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On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, James FitzGibbon wrote:
>On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:
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>> The big problem we have with POP is the Eudora users who select the
>> "leave mail on server" button. How do ISPs cope with that, or do they
>> lock out that option somehow?
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>Cucipop can do one of two rather nasty things:
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>- sabotage the 'UIDL' command, making it always return a psuedo-random
>value. This causes people who have 'leave messages on server' turned on
>to download *all* their mail every time they check it. They soon learn.
>This of course makes you non-RFC compliant.
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>- force a 'DELE' for each successfully 'RETR'd message. Also makes you
>non-RFC compliant.
>
>At our site, we wrote our own Maildir compatible POP daemon which deletes
>read messages (based upon the ',2:S' suffix) when the mtime of the file in
>question exceeds a policy value (in our case, 90 days)
>
>
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