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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: appletalk mail programs
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Date: 15 Mar 91 20:51:03 GMT
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In article <1991Mar15.190155.27523@ns.uoregon.edu> rhaller@phloem.uoregon.edu writes:
>Is there a downside to Eudora? Well, depending on how people configure their
>individual clients, old mail can build up on your unix box (i.e., "leave mail
>on server" delivers a copy to the mac without deleting the originals on the pop
>server). Unfortunately, the users can't delete it retroactively from Eudora .

Thanks for the vote of confidence.

All they have to do is turn "Leave Mail on Server" OFF and check their mail.
Yes, they will have to wait while it is all downloaded again.  That's their
punishment for having LMOS on :-).

The real answer to this problem is education.  We teach our users that
this option (LMOS) bites, and that they should only use it in specific
circumstances (when checking mail from a mac they only occasionally use,
so they will get the mail on their 'home' mac later).

The POP protocol is unsuited to doing maildrop management, unless you're
willing to treat your maildrop as just another mailbox over the network,
ala IMAP.  This is fine for people on high-speed permanent networks,
but would be hell for 2400 baud (or less) dialup users, and heaven help
you if you are chaged by the minute.

Now, some fairly simple extensions to POP could probably solve this
particular problem.  Others would remain, however, and I'd rather
see POP dropped in favor of PCMAIL, which is the right way to handle
reading your mail from multiple hosts.  Should time (or funding)
ever permit, that's the direction I will go.
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu  UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner