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Re: Amiga Mail Clients - Leave Mail Properly?

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From: Eric Edwards
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 05:59
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In article <19960315.7E5C080.8B68@mother.com>, Dan J. Fraser writes:

> In article <4iarc5$9n0@atlantis.atlantis.actrix.gen.nz> alessan@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (Sean Watts) writes:
> > Is there _any_ mail reader on the amiga that implements an option to 
> > leave mail on the server properly? That is, only downloads it once, 
> > rather than over and over?
> 
> That's a limitation of POP3, not of Amiga mail software.

Sort of.  There are some extensions to POP3 that allow this. 
Implimentation, in both clients and servers, is spotty.

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From: Eric@wolf359.exile.org (Eric Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
Subject: Re: Amiga Mail Clients - Leave Mail Properly?
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Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 05:59:25 GMT
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