Re: Re: Zoe not fetching reclassified mesages from Popfile

Hi,

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:47:59 +0000 (UTC) Julian Eade <[email protected]> wrote:

> It does seem to me that the beauty of using Popfile and Zoe in series
> with my mail client, is that the spam is eliminated, not at it's
> source, but at the beginning of my end of the chain. 

It's the beauty, indeed. But since my mail server (not controlled by me) also
filters mail, and is quite aggressive at that, I have more mis-positives
than usual. I therefore prefer to err on the safe side and get the spam
anyway. It's filtered (in my email client) to a spam folder, so I can look
through it from time to time.

> I have found that if I go directly to the ISP's POP server, and re-send the 
> message (after reclessifying in POPFile) it will then be treated correctly. 

Could you tell me how you do this? You mean using telnet or something like that?
How do you "re-send" the message on the server? With Pine or something
like that?

My email client does allow me to examine my POP data on the server, and
re-retrieve a message (or to delete one on the server) if I want. But
it's my understanding that messages on a POP server don't really have a
"read/unread" or "retrieved/not-yet-retrieved" status flag. 

When I mark a message on the server back to "unread", e.g., it's
actually my email client that "remembers" which message is now "unread"
and will re-get it next time. So if I mark message A as unread in Becky 
(my normal email client), and then check mail in Thunderbird (the one
I'm trying), Thunderbird would not re-get message A, if it has gotten it
earlier. Same if I use Becky on another computer.

That's why I said I didn't know how you could tell Zoe to re-retrieve a
message.

> So as long as you are able to look directly at your POP server you
> may find this an easier way than the method you are using at present.

It may well be, if I don't have that many messages stored on my server.
At the moment, I don't delete messages from the server for I'm
contemplating switching email client, and my Zoe setup isn't finalized
yet (have to reset Zoe and re-get all the messages now and then).

But anyway, thanks for sharing back.

-- 
Best regards,
Ming-Li



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