VM

vm-pop-expunge-after-retrieving

Bug #587161 reported by Uday Reddy
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
VM
Fix Released
Wishlist
Uday Reddy
VM 8.2.0a

Bug Description

EmacsWiki points out that this option is dangerous:

  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GettingMail

Newsgroup discussion here as well:

  http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.vm.info/browse_thread/thread/1297bd3ab1de78d9/b0731237b73d5ce1#b0731237b73d5ce1

Implement a safe mechanism to specify expunge for POP & IMAP maildrops.

Tags: pop
Uday Reddy (reddyuday)
Changed in vm:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
milestone: none → 8.1.2
Uday Reddy (reddyuday)
tags: added: pop
Revision history for this message
John Hein (xpqheqdvq4) wrote :

I vote for defaulting to 'leave on server' and just print a brief message ('leaving messages on server') once when you first download messages from a spool - maybe with a hint about how to change the behavior. That's fairly simple to implement and is probably most friendly to new users.

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Uday Reddy (reddyuday) wrote :

Thanks John. This is probably not the ideal solution, but it is easy to do. So, I have committed the fix.

Changed in vm:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
assignee: nobody → Uday Reddy (reddyuday)
Revision history for this message
Uday Reddy (reddyuday) wrote :

Released in 8.1.93a.

no longer affects: vm/8.2.x
Changed in vm:
milestone: 8.1.2 → 8.2.0a
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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