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Need to have option to be able to download only UNREAD e-mails from pop account...not all of them! Outlook can do this. It would be nice if the P800 could too.
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Posted: 2003-05-07 00:27:00
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If it's any consolation, you can set to 'download headers' and only download the body of the mails you haven't read.
Not a perfect solution but better than downloading whole emails twice!
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Posted: 2003-05-07 00:32:00
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True :: currently doing that, but when I receive so much e-mail...it gets old real quick
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Posted: 2003-05-07 00:35:00
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On 2003-05-07 00:27, tylast wrote:
Need to have option to be able to download only UNREAD e-mails from pop account...not all of them! Outlook can do this. It would be nice if the P800 could too.
Are you sure this can be done in Outlook ?? How is this done ?? As far as I know, mail software like Outlook does not make read/unread marks on the mail on a POP3 server, so how can it retrieve only unread mail ??!!
I've had a good look around Outlook and can only see similar options the the P800s mail client, which allows you to download headers instead of whole mails.
Andy
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Posted: 2003-05-07 01:17:00
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When I use Outlook to POP my Yahoo account...once Outlook download the message it does mark it as Read on my Yahoo account. I just checked.
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Posted: 2003-05-07 02:52:00
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On 2003-05-07 02:52, tylast wrote:
When I use Outlook to POP my Yahoo account...once Outlook download the message it does mark it as Read on my Yahoo account. I just checked.
I've never seen that behaviour from any of my POP accounts, and believe me, I've had many
I'm not saying it doesn't do it, just that its not normal behaviour from Outlook, and I suspect its a special thing between Outlook and Yahoo.
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Posted: 2003-05-07 09:49:00
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As far as I am aware, the P800 functions exactly the way Outlook performs. It is not a limitation of the mail client, but a limitation of POP3 itself. Outlook does indead download all mail form a POP account. But if a particular message has been downloaded on a previous check, that message will not be downloaded again.
The P800 does exactly the same thing, it will not download it again. Secondly, the P800 does indeed set the "read" flag as true once it has successfully downloded a mail. I can vouch that for a fact, because my mail account is both "pop3" and IMAP capable, and when a message is downloaded via POP3 using the P800, it appears as "read" on IMAP.
I do not understand your problem. The behavious you are exhibiting is perfectly normal for POP3.
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Posted: 2003-05-07 12:44:00
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exactly right.
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Posted: 2003-05-07 12:50:00
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OK, let me clear up my original suggestion. I MEANT to say that I wish it would only download unread headers (not e-mails like my first post stated) & not all of them. That was my mistake. So if I have 30 e-mails in my account & only 2 have not been read...then only download those two headers. Maybe an option that lets me do all headers or just un-read ones.
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Posted: 2003-05-14 22:23:00
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POP3 has to download all the headers each time because the flag for read/unread is stored by the CLIENT and not on the server. When the header of a message is downloaded it is compared to a list that the client maintains to check if it has been seen before.
This means that if you use multiple clients to access the same POP3 account (e.g. a laptop, a P800, Yahoo mail and a desktop) then each mail can be either read or unread independantly on each client.
It certainly is noticable if you don't clear your POP3 account with one of the clients regularly and end up downloading all the headers every time you log in from the others.
Graeme
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Posted: 2003-05-14 22:28:00
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