[imp] IMP Deletes mail from inbox

Steven Patterson S.R.Patterson@soton.ac.uk
Wed, 18 Apr 2001 19:51:47 +0100


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Hagenbuch" <chuck@horde.org>
To: <imp@lists.horde.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 5:45 AM
Subject: Re: [imp] IMP Deletes mail from inbox


> Quoting IMP Subscribe <imp@pili.adnu.edu.ph>:
>
> > Is there a way of configuring imp such that it doesn't not
> > delete the mails from the users inbox?
>
> IMP doesn't do any such thing. Reading mail with IMP will only cause that
to
> happen if you are:
>
> 1. Using a really nasty pop3 daemon. If so, get a better pop daemon, or
> switch to IMAP.

... or your pop3 daemon is configured to remove mails from server after
downloading (qpopper has such an option but it's not default, for example).

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