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Re: pop3 problem



----- Original Message -----
From: "Tzafrir Cohen" <tzafrir@technion.ac.il>
To: "Linux-IL Mailing List" <linux-il@linux.org.il>; <maxim@magnifire.com>;
"Oded Arbel" <oded@geek.co.il>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: pop3 problem


>
> I'm not sure I read this correctly, but...
>
> What about:
>
> telnet mail.server.address 110
> USER username
> PASS secret
> LIST
> RETR 1
> RETR 2
>  ...
> QUIT
>
> At which stage exactly are there troubles?

I guess, at RETR part - what you describe here should work OK, as long as
you DELE after you RETR each message. also - telneting to the POP3 to RETR
your messages is a poor practice, as it's very hard/anoying to keep your
emails on your computer (like it's expected when you use POP3) especially
when getting emails with attachments.

>
> That highly depends on the size of the message. One message in the size of
> 1MB can be more of a toruble-maker than a batch of 20 messages of the size
> of 10kb

Correct. my statement should have included the word "average" somewhere
within itself.

> >  and delete each after you download it. If you encounter
> > disconnetions (which you will probably will) then just reconnect and
> > continue where you left.
>
> If an imap service on the box is also available, then it can be used. but
> you should configure the imap client not to download the whole mailbox by
> default (I seem to recall that this is OE's default).

In the case I describe, IMAP would break when trying to list the messages,
so POP3 was actually the fallback.

Oded

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