Re: Leaving on POP server & selectively deleting

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Hi Peter,

On Wed, 28 May 2003 14:56:06 -0400 Peter Davis <[email protected]> wrote:

> >On Wed, 21 May 2003 11:55:16 -0400 Peter Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>I'd like to be able to do something like this with Sylpheed-Claws.  Is
> >>there any way to access the server and UIDL info when messages are
> >>downloaded, so I can store that somewhere?  
> >>    
> >No.
> 
> Thanks, Thorsten.  I've thought of writing a Perl script to purge 
> messages from the server based on Message-ID, rather than UIDL.  I would 
> run the script on all the messages in the trash folder prior to emptying 
> the trash.  However, getting the Message-ID from a POP3 server is more 
> work than getting the UIDL, and not all messages have Message-IDs.

An external incorporation seems the simplest solution to me:
I cannot see any reference from the downloaded messages to
their uidl: Sylpheeds philosophy is not to change the original
message that came from the network socket (and as I will
strictly follow Hiroyukis decisions, it doesn't make sense
to discuss this behaviour with me).
A disadvantage of this is that you cannot store any additional
info (e.g. the read flags are stored in a separate .sylpheed_mark
file for this reason. But that file gets written at a different
time&place, there is no reference to uidl anymore).

The only (ugly) way I can see would be patching Sylpheed to
insert that info as a new header before existing data in
pop.c:pop3_retr_recv() and pass this to pop3_write_msg_to_file().
But this would require you to compile Sylpheed on your own, as
I doubt any of the developers will accept the breaking of the
"dont-munge-messages" rule.

Regards,
-- 
Thorsten Maerz          <[email protected]>
Sylpheed-claws/Win32:   http://claws-w32.sf.net

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