Re: POP3 Downloads

[Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 03:46:03PM -0000, Ayitey Bulley wrote:
> Lets say I am a dial-in subscriber to an ISP. I have connected to the ISP to
> download my mail. In the middle of downloading the mail (say 20 of 200
> messages), the link breaks.
> 
> I reconnect to download my mail, it starts from message 1 again.
> 
> I am looking for a solution where mail downloaded will not be downloaded
> again i.e. messages successfully received are removed from the server and
> not downloaded again.

I suggest using a POP3 client which uses 'UIDL' to determine which messages
it has seen and not seen. You might have to turn on an option in your POP3
client to enable this functionality.

It does depend on the remote POP3 server supporting the 'UIDL' command as
well (it's "optional" in RFC1939), but many do. You can find out by
telnetting to port 110, logging in (USER xxx // PASS yyy) and then seeing if
UIDL produces a response.

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