Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:51:09 -0500 From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: Programmer In Training <pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How Fetchmail made me a spammer Message-ID: <4B4F214D.2000407@langille.org> In-Reply-To: <4B4F1CA0.3070000@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> References: <201001141016.56877.mail@maxlor.com> <867hrkx52s.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4B4F1CA0.3070000@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us>
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Programmer In Training wrote: > On 1/14/2010 6:07 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > <snip> >> None of this would have happened if you were using IMAP instead of POP. >> Unlike POP, IMAP a) provides a way to mark a message as "processed" >> without deleting it and b) does not renumber messages or reuse message >> numbers. >> >> DES > > A possible solution, but who likes IMAP? Many people. > I much prefer POP3 and having > the mail locally (I delete it from the server once it's copied). Good on you. But don't go trashing another solution just because you don't like it. :) Damn it. I fed the troll. Sorry folks.
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