Hi

Thanks for the reply. Definitelly IMAP is not a solution for me. All the emails for my user's domain are stored in a single account on my ISP. I have to fetch them and distribute them locally. In every fetch there are several emails and every time the link fails I have to start over again for the forst message wich I already downloaded. Tha's a problem. Any other solution?

Thanks

David

----- Original Message ----- From: "Timo Sirainen" tss@iki.fi To: "Davy Leon" davy@scu.escambray.com.cu Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 10:29 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] DELE before QUIT

On Dec 8, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Davy Leon wrote:

I'm new to Dovecot. I'm wonderng if it's a way that dovecot delete a message just after the DELE POP3 command and not just mark the message for deletion and wait until the QUIT command is received. The main reason is for slow and unstable links fetching mail this is madness. Any suggestions?

Doing that would violate POP3 protocol specifications. I'm not really interested in doing such things. You could of course patch your Dovecot sources if you really wanted it.

Maybe your users should be using IMAP instead of POP3? Or configure mails to be kept on server so they wouldn't kept downloading duplicates?

Davy Leon, 2009-12-08 16:53:

Thanks for the reply. Definitelly IMAP is not a solution for me. All the emails for my user's domain are stored in a single account on my ISP. I have to fetch them and distribute them locally. In every fetch there are several emails and every time the link fails I have to start over again for the forst message wich I already downloaded. Tha's a problem. Any other solution?

This is a client issue and has nothing to do with the server. Tracking client state in the server (using LAST) is a long gone POP3 feature. Proper clients (e.g. fetchmail) use UIDL and never download the same message again. You may have to explicitely enable this feature, though.