🚀 go-pugleaf

Ewan Kirk (ewan@kirk.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> In Article <30d09640.4515768@news.demon.co.uk> Mike Mann writes:
> >This may be a reference to the fact that WinDis appends incoming mail
> >to the file ....\ka9q\spool\mail\<user>.txt *unless* its POP3 server
> >is switched on, in which case incoming mail is stored in files of the
> >form ....\ka9q\spool\mail\<user>\nnnnnnnn.pop.
> >
> >There must be a good design reason for this although it escapes me.

> The reason is to make the design simple.  The KA9Q mailbox is
> a pain in the arse.

Maybe so, but it is a standard understood by a great number of mail
readers / agents on a number of platforms.


>                               Deleting a single message from the
> middle of it is just horrible.

So why delete so often. I just archive them monthly, never deleting
anything. Is disk space really such a major problem these days when
1Gb costs under 200pds ?

I'm not trying to decry your design decision BTW, just put the ka9q
way of doing things into context.

-- 
Malcolm S. Muir
Sunderland
England