Sylpheed-Claws: how to continue getting a mail from a connection break?

[John Summerfied]

Strong wrote:
> Sometimes when getting my mail from a server, the last one breaks the
> connection so that after some time when I try to get it again, the
> Sylpheed-Claws-1.9.15-1.fc4 gets the downloaded messages again. I want
> to reduce the traffic, so don't want that that be the case. Tell me
> please how I can do that? Thank You.
> 
The pop3 protocol requires deletes not be done until you end your session.

fetchmail has the ability to "checkpoint" by closing and reopening at 
regular intervals. This may be a useful workaround.

Note that this itself imposes delays.




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