| Jeff Abrahamson on 13 May 2005 01:48:34 -0000 |
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In a private discussion, a flame war erupted concerning the "leave on server" option that many POP clients offer. The other party maintained that mail should initially be left on the server in case something happens to the client. He concluded that this was the reason for the feature. I opined that the feature was likely for use by those who ran more than one POP client but only wanted one personal mail store. I was not able to justify this assertion, but suggested (with link to the rfc) that, since the protocol is stateful, it is unlikely to suffer from reliability problems that would cause one to loose mail by issuing DELE's after RETR's. Does anyone here know more of the history? I imagine experience with earlier versions of POP might elucidate this, as web mail clients were not popular in the old days before the web. -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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