Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 01:24:48 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@mail.iowna.com>, "Hudson, Henrik H." <hhudson@eschelon.com> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: qpopper Message-ID: <01d301c07fd0$79194c00$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <C1781C38F13DA040848FEFAD07311B10459852@walleye.corp.fishnet.com> <3A646359.89989A21@mail.iowna.com>
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Pegasus is certainly nicer in many ways than Outlook, particularly as far as POP3 is involved, but I'm far from happy with its IMAP setup. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> To: "Hudson, Henrik H." <hhudson@eschelon.com> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 1:06 AM Subject: Re: qpopper > "Hudson, Henrik H." wrote: > > > > In addition, Outlook is a piece of junk..Pegasus mail will actually do want > > you want via a POP interface and download only unread mail and leave stuff > > on the server. Of course, you still have to purge it occasionally..otherwise > > you will just fill up your mailbox. If you go this route via POP you won't > > be able to "see" what's on the server anymore, since you download it and > > delete it locally, but it's still on the server. IMAP is the way to go, if > > you want to do this "correctly" :) > > I would assume that Pegasus is keeping track of message ID, and when it > contacts the pop server only downloads message IDs that it doesn't > already have. Outlook doesn't appear to be this intelligent (with > reference to POP anyway) Like I said earlier, POP3 was never really > designed to work that way, so it's saying a lot for Pegasus that it's > able to handle it. > It's odd that you should mention Pegasus in this manner. One of my > clients will be switching from Pegasus to Outlook soon because they're > unhappy with Pegasus and Outlooks seem to fit their needs better. I > wonder if they're on an old version of Pegasus?? > > -Bill > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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