[Bug 31114] When deleting mail locally, delete on POP3 server, too.

Jerzy Luszawski dr_agon at tlen.pl
Thu Aug 20 23:40:55 BST 2009


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31114





--- Comment #99 from Jerzy Luszawski <dr_agon tlen pl>  2009-08-21 00:38:38 ---
(In reply to comment #93)
> (...)The simple conclusion is that
> KMail knows which of the e-mails present on the server have been already
> deleted locally by the user. 
POP3 client knows nothing about messages present on the server. All messages
could have been deleted by another client, for example.
> Then what's the problem with deleting them also on
> the server? There's no problem at all.
This is not so easy. POP3 is very simple protocol, not designed for random
access to messages. It also does not enforce unique ID of messages on the
server.
I'm not saying it is impossible, but it is not so simple, either.

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