Subject: Re: Pine and Netscape

From: [email-masked] (Rob Funk)
Date: 1 Aug 1996 15:22:50 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Jeffrey Veiss <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Keep in mind, however, that by default, POP3 will copy all your mail to your
>local machine and remove it from the server.

Not POP3 itself, only Pine's handling of it.
POP3 requires that each message be retrieved individually, and
to remove a message from a POP3 server, a client needs to explicitly
issue the DELE command.

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