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In article <4itms2$iuj@atlantis.atlantis.actrix.gen.nz> alessan@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (Sean Watts) writes:
>Actually, it's because I access my account from a variety of locations, 
>and the last one of the day is usually direct to unix, at which point I 
>make a last check of the mail to ensure it's dealt with, _then_ delete 
>it.

Then IMAP would be the ideal choice of protocols for
you. Unfortunately, it is not that widely supported. I gave some
thought to implementing IMAP for Voodoo, but service providers with
IMAP servers available are rare, and even in the university
environment where they are most useful, the clients are not too
common, and thus evryone would use POP anyway. And the two don't mix
that well.

>So far, the only thing I've found which provides the functionality nicely 
>is Eudora Pro - it doesn't care even if it's new mail or not, if it 
>hasn't seen it, it copies it down. But if it has seen it, it ignores it. 
>That's all I want an Amiga mailer to do.

If you use POP to transfer mail, you don't get a choice of looking at
message headers beforehand to decide whether you've seen it
already. This means that if messages are kept on the server, a POP
client must download all of them. POP gives you a chance of choosing
messages by number, but as those numbers are valid only within a
session, they are useless for this.

What Eudora does (unless some private POP extension is available or
used) is to download all of the messages regardless, and then filter
out the ones it remembers seeing before.

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