How Fetchmail made me a spammer

[Programmer In Training]

On 1/14/2010 6:07 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
<snip>
> None of this would have happened if you were using IMAP instead of POP.
> Unlike POP, IMAP a) provides a way to mark a message as "processed"
> without deleting it and b) does not renumber messages or reuse message
> numbers.
> 
> DES

A possible solution, but who likes IMAP? I much prefer POP3 and having
the mail locally (I delete it from the server once it's copied).

Also, it seems as if he's downloading it from the other users (the
person who sent the email) mail server and there is no way to force the
other mail server to use one standard over another (although in this
case a useless thought). The problem is it was not able to get into the
local mail queue because of certain default settings (which at one time
probably made sense). This problem would have occurred if he were using
IMAP or POP3 since it never made it into his mail servers queue. This
was bouncing between his server and the original sender's server.

I do think a 20MB email is rather ridiculous. Even with today's age of
broadband I wouldn't allow files over 10MB and I would make sure my
users noticed that. I would also have a hard bounce enabled for messages
that went over the size limit.

Just my $2

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