ok, I will keep tight to RFC then. Thanks for the answers. David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Tauno Williams" <awilliam at whitemice.org> To: <centos at centos.org> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 9:43 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] POP3 server On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 01:32 +1100, Ben McGinnes wrote: > On 22/10/10 3:10 AM, David wrote: > > 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. The feature you want would result in inconsistencies in some cases; nothing is going to implement that behavior. > > Any other POP3 server not so RFC compliant? > > Thanks for the answer. > Breaking RFCs to get the functions you want is a *bad* idea. What > happens if you get hit by a bus and someone else has to deal with the > issue, sees that the config is "broken" and "fixes" it. > You're much better off using a protocol which supports an immediate > delete from the server, like IMAP. Unless, of course, the issue is with > a lack of disk space on the server. -- Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos