Re: EXPIRE

At 2:17 PM -0700 7/23/98, Chris Newman wrote:

>A sysadmin can always change policy regardless of what any standard says.
>I really wish you had complained during the past year this proposal has
>been refined.  It's really frustrating to get lots of review on a
>proposal, get it near complete, then go back to the drawing board as
>complaints spring out of the woodwork.

I agree, especially for edge cases that we really can't solve and
remain simple.

>If we want to ratchet down one level of complexity from EXPIRE, the next
>would be an "AUTODELE" capability which indicates that RETR and/or TOP
>cause an implicit DELE.

That doesn't allow a server to advertise that it expires unseen messages.