[sylpheed:30014] Re: "Don't Receive" does receive

[Jack Olszewski]

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:21:07 +0900
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> wrote:

HY> ... 
HY> > You are right. In POP3, the command to get headers without the message
HY> > body is TOP. It makes it possible to filter out messages on conditions
HY> > concerning headers only, without retrieval of message bodies.
HY> 
HY> But it generates extra traffic if the message requires retrieval after
HY> TOP.
HY> 

Yes, a few hundred bytes for each coming message. What if the whole
reason for "Don't receive" is not to receive messages from
nasty_joker at some.domain.com who sends several "jokes" a day about 10MB
each? I suppose one would live happily with an additional traffic of a
few hundred bytes for every coming message, if only the traffic caused
by nasty_joker could be prevented.

HY> > By the way, the "Don't receive" action seems to make it impossible to
HY> > remove the "unreceived" messages from the server ever. Even if one
HY> > changes the condition into "Delete from server", they seem to be stuck
HY> > there - neither retrieved nor removed afterwards.
HY> 
HY> "Delete from sever" is actually equivalent to "Don't receive and delete
HY> from server".
HY> 

Yes, if used from the very beginning. If one had "Don't receive", and
changed later into "Delete from server" later, the "unreceived"
messages seem impossible to be removed from the server without
intervention of the server administrator.

Cheers,
--
Jack