[Alpine-info] "Leave mail on server"?

[Eduardo Chappa]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, damion.yates at gmail.com wrote:


:) That should be configurable via the settings on the webui.  Clients can 

:) choose to delete or not, this is common pop3 operation.  However as 

:) everyone suggests IMAP is much more useful.


Alpine does not delete anything. If *YOU* want to delete, then *YOU* can 
do so. Alpine *DOES NOT* delete anything for you, you have to do it for 
yourself.

However, some servers do delete without anyone requesting it (either by an 
action initiated by the client on its own, or by the person through the 
client).

The option "keep messages in the server" is an option to avoid the client 
to delete messages from the server. In the case of Alpine, it does not 
delete anything, so there is no reason for this. However, you might argue 
that you would like Alpine to DELETE messages from the server instead 
(that is, the option should be "[X] delete messages from a pop3 server"), 
then in that case, you have to know that neither Alpine nor the server 
will keep a copy of the message that has been deleted.

Does this make any sense?

-- 
Eduardo
http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/