[imp] duplicating the inbox

[Rich Lafferty]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:21:09PM +0800, Jun Garin (jun@earth.www.ph) wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> 
> > Okay... but either way, IMP does not issue a "duplicate the mailbox" command. 
> > So I'd have to see a lot more evidence that this is a problem with IMP, as 
> > opposed to a vpopd bug.
> > 
> > -chuck
> > 
>  ok... why is it that imp leaves a copy of mails to the mailbox when using
> pop?  i used netscape messenger to the same account/inbox and it
> deleted the contents of mailbox after popping them out.

The mail has to be stored *somewhere* -- if IMP deleted the mail from
the POP3 server after you read it, it'd just be gone. IMP isn't
running on your desktop computer.

  -Rich

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