Re: Balsa Development Plans

[Walt Armour <walt blarg net>]

Hmmm... are people sending this stuff with balsa?  Need to get a fix in
for the line wrapping.  :)

Anyway, this kind of functionality is sort of what falls into the purview
of IMAP.  While we could attempt to support this type of function for POP
it would probably end up being a kludge at best due to limitations of POP.
My suggestion would be to simply treat POP as most other clients do:
download if it is there, delete it if they say so.  If a user wants this
level of function we should probably point them at IMAP.  Most mail
servers I look at nowadays support both so going to IMAP shouldn't be too
big an issue.

walt


 On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, brady wrote:

> This would be good to have available though it should obviously be left off by default and have some kind of warning.  Did I see a message somewhere where it said that Balsa wouldn't include this feature until the software was more stable?
> 
> I would also like to see something where Balsa doesn't re-download email that has already been downloaded, but doesn't delete it off the server either.  I don't know how this would be implimented exactly, perhaps:
> 
> 1.  Keeping track of the last download date/time and only download mail where the recieve date/time is after that.
> 
> 2.  Keep track of every message that has been downloaded and deleted but is still on the server.  Storing these lists could become quite cumbersome and you would probably want to synchronize them every time you connected to the mailbox.  Imagine if someone had 1000s of messages on the server...it could take an hour to download two messages!
> 
> I too would like to start trying to contribute code but I'm unable to get gcc working right now.  (undefined reference to _dl_sysdep_start)
> 
> Brady
> 
> >Hi!
> >
> >Regarding the latest traffic on balsa here, I would suggest to set up
> >something like a development plan. At leeast to me it seems like there are
> >lots of people willing to help, but speaking for myself, it is hard to
> >contribute code without knowing what the core developers would like to be 
> >done next.
> >
> >That said: I may provide a patch (as soon as I found the time to make it
> >work with the newest cvs-version) for a delete-mail-from-server-option for
> >pop3 mailboxes .... if anyone is interested.
> >
> >I am willing to contribute code in future (mainly for gui, or filters stuff
> >because I must admit to have only basic skills in Unix-C...)
> >
> >-Knut
> >
> >
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