Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

Jason Earl <jearl@notengoamigos.org> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 24 2010, Elena wrote:
>
>> On Nov 23, 4:18 pm, Jason Earl <je...@notengoamigos.org> wrote:
>>> Here is a basic setup that will connect gnus to an IMAP server on port
>>> 993 via ssl.  In short, if all you need is the sort of basic setup that
>>> you get from other mail clients this will suit you just fine.
>>>
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>>>       '((nnimap "mail"
>>>                 (nnimap-address "your.mail.server")
>>>                 (nnimap-server-port 993)
>>>                 (nnimap-stream ssl)
>>>                 (nnimap-authenticator login))))
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Thank you very much, Jason.  However, my server is a POP one,
>> otherwise I guess Gnus would not have been dumb enough to start
>> downloading my mails and deleting them assuming I knew some bizantine
>> settings to avoid that beforehand.  Thunderbird may be big and slow,
>> but at least it does not make such assumptions.
>>
>> For a text-based mail-client, I'm looking into Alpine now.
>
> It has been a long time since I have used a pop3 client, but when I used
> to support such beasts downloading the messages (and deleting them from
> the server) is precisely what they were *supposed* to do.  I would not
> be surprised if most modern email clients still downloaded the messages
> and deleted them from the server when using pop3.

I've never had a POP3 client delete from the server when it reads.

Certainly using Gmail one of the first in your face options is whether
to retain a copy on the server.

It's a server side setting normally isn't it?