Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.2.2 - odd behavior with Yahoo POP server

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> Thanks for the explanation of POP3 - from that it seemed clear that OE
> wasn't doing some magic unknown to Evolution, so I tried a small
> experiment, sending a few test messages and reading them with OE and
> Evolution.  Turns out, I was wrong, they ALL go to the Yahoo Trash
> folder.

Um, the missing first question I never asked... :-/


> So apparently, (a) I just never noticed this strange behavior before on
> Yahoo, and (b) as Guenther said earlier, it is apparently a gratis
> "feature" of whatever mail interface Yahoo has behind their POP3 server.
>
> I probably never noticed it before because, since my complete switch
> from OE to Evolution, I've been paying more attention to mail issues
> than previously.  While watching the results of my experiments on Yahoo
> today, I noticed a little statement on one of Yahoo's mail folder
> viewing pages that says "The trash folder is emptied periodically,
> automatically."  So it appears the POP3 DELE/UPDATE action does not
> really remove a message from the Yahoo Inbox, it just moves it to trash,
> which is purged periodically, and entirely out of control of the POP3
> client.

DELE    command (action, if you wanna)
Update  is just a state, that cannot directly be triggered

Hey, I just learned the last bits about that topic, so let us be
precise. ;-)


> My apologies for the confusion, and thanks to Guenther for giving me the
> right clues.

Your welcome. It was quite a bit of fun, actually...


> Looks like *I* am the April fool!  Oh, well, at least a more educated
> one now.

At least, that let me dig again through the POP3 protocol...

...guenther


unrelated footnotes:
 [1] http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/03/04/01/0332202.shtml?tid=156
 [2] http://slashdot.org/articles/03/04/01/0218226.shtml?tid=172&tid=156
 [3] ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt
 [4] http://www.thinkgeek.com/default.asp


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