Re: A capability in the IMAP protocol.

2015-01-12 Thread peter
* From: Andrei POPESCU em concurrently. Someone might work with a smartphone and a desktop system concurrently for example. IMAP is useful there. In a simpler but similar case, an mbox file can be on a flash storage card which is shifted from one machine to another not too frequently.

Re: A capability in the IMAP protocol.

2015-01-12 Thread peter
> IMAP allows retrieving a message, and IMAP allows deleting a message, so > this can certainly be done. (As long as the server actually respects the > delete command, rather than archiving on delete or something like that, > but that would be server-specific.) > ... > I imagine that various other

Re: A capability in the IMAP protocol.

2015-01-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 02 ian 15, 12:01:28, Peter Easthope wrote: > Hi, > > Does the IMAP protocol allow retrieving a message, body included, from > a server and then deleting from the server while keeping on the client? > This might be described as simulating a POP behavour in IMAP. > > If the protocol allows t

Re: A capability in the IMAP protocol.

2015-01-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 01/02/2015 at 04:06 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 01/02/2015 at 03:01 PM, Peter Easthope wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Does the IMAP protocol allow retrieving a message, body included, >> from a server and then deleting from the server while keeping on >> the client? This might be described as simulat

Re: A capability in the IMAP protocol.

2015-01-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 01/02/2015 at 03:01 PM, Peter Easthope wrote: > Hi, > > Does the IMAP protocol allow retrieving a message, body included, > from a server and then deleting from the server while keeping on the > client? This might be described as simulating a POP behavour in > IMAP. IMAP allows retrieving a m