Sometimes when getting my mail from a server, the last one breaks the connection so that after some time when I try to get it again, the Sylpheed-Claws-1.9.15-1.fc4 gets the downloaded messages again. I want to reduce the traffic, so don't want that that be the case. Tell me please how I can do that? Thank You.
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 23:40 +0300, Strong wrote:
Sometimes when getting my mail from a server, the last one breaks the connection so that after some time when I try to get it again, the Sylpheed-Claws-1.9.15-1.fc4 gets the downloaded messages again. I want to reduce the traffic, so don't want that that be the case.
It's a feature of POP that you need to properly log out, else it's assumed an error has occurred and you may not have received the mail (so it's kept for you to retrieve, again, but without errors). That's not something that you can avoid with the mail client.
It sounds more like you've got a networking condition that you need to rectify (the reason *why* the last fetched mail has a problem and fails).
Hello Strong,
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:40:08 +0300 Strong s-strong@mail.ru wrote:
Sometimes when getting my mail from a server, the last one breaks the connection so that after some time when I try to get it again, the Sylpheed-Claws-1.9.15-1.fc4 gets the downloaded messages again. I want to reduce the traffic, so don't want that that be the case. Tell me please how I can do that? Thank You.
Tim is right about that. POP protocol is safe around that, and if the POP session doesn't end properly, it's better *for you* to be able to get the messages again. You should understand why you get such network problem, and try to fix it 'cause I'm afraid that you would face the same problem w/ another MUA.
As a workaround, if you are *sure* that you got that email entirely, it might be convenient either to delete the email using a HTML interface if any, or to use another tool that allows deleting emails w/o downloading them. If the email size is very big (and if the size is the problem here), you can temporarily avoid downloading it by using the relevant account receive option - of course it would stay on the server until you remove it by hand or w/o network problem.
BTW, did you enable "remove messages on server when received" or "download all messages from server" in the "Receive" tab of the account prefs?
Regards,
Strong wrote:
Sometimes when getting my mail from a server, the last one breaks the connection so that after some time when I try to get it again, the Sylpheed-Claws-1.9.15-1.fc4 gets the downloaded messages again. I want to reduce the traffic, so don't want that that be the case. Tell me please how I can do that? Thank You.
The pop3 protocol requires deletes not be done until you end your session.
fetchmail has the ability to "checkpoint" by closing and reopening at regular intervals. This may be a useful workaround.
Note that this itself imposes delays.
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