I was hoping Dovecot could be not so RFC compliant in this matter. Anyway if gets the DELE command the message arrived safely to the client.
Any other POP3 server not so RFC compliant?
Thanks for the answer.
David
----- Original Message ----- From: "Drew" drew.kay@gmail.com To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 8:01 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] POP3 server
So, I'm wondering if it's possible to tell Dovecot to actually delete the message when receiving a DELE command instead of marking it for deletion after the QUIT.
Nope. RFC1939 specifically states that the DELE command only *marks* the email for deletion. Once the server enters the 'update' state it will perform the deletion. The only command that can enter that state is the QUIT command.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1939.txt