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Hi I am playing with the Net::POP3 library and some questions have
jumped up on my head:

This is my code:

<pre>
Net::POP3.start( 'pop.gmail.com', 995, account_user, account_pass ) do

pop>

  pop.each_mail do |m|
    puts m.header
    m.delete
  end
end
</pre>

1) what does m.delete mean?

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Because as you see I am using it, It suppose to be that I am deleting
the emails on the server, but the emails are still there when try to
access with my client.

Maybe this is because I am testing with a gmail account and it does
weird things.. I don't know.

2) how does Net::POP3 detect when an email is already readed and when
not?
--------

Because I had a lot unread emails on my testing.gmail.account and the
script does not download them.

And on other test I sent a few emails to my testing.gmail.account and
then I read the half of them and then I run my script and it downloaded
all of them, the readed and the unread.

And once the script has downloaded all of the emails, I go to my
gmail.web.email.client and all of them appear as unread.

3) how can I download an email I have already downloaded
--------

How I said on the question 2) does not matter if I mark the email as
unread or not on my gmail.web.email.client.

Once my script has downloaded an email it does not download it again.

I don't think this behavior is not correct, I am a few confused.. that's
all.

Maybe this is not a Ruby question and goes closer to pop protocol.. I
don't know

Any suggestion is welcome.

f.
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Hi Fernando,

Though I am not knowledgeable on the specifics, I would recommend you
start by using a different POP service to test against - my
understanding is that Gmail implements the POP3 interface but its
behavior is quite nonstandard (e.g., a "Delete" I believe just
archives the message, etc.)

Mat

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On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 19:57, Fernando Guillen<fguillen.mail@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi I am playing with the Net::POP3 library and some questions have
jumped up on my head:

This is my code:

<pre>
Net::POP3.start( 'pop.gmail.com', 995, account_user, account_pass ) do
>pop>
pop.each_mail do |m|
puts m.header
m.delete
end
end
</pre>

1) what does m.delete mean?
-------

Because as you see I am using it, It suppose to be that I am deleting
the emails on the server, but the emails are still there when try to
access with my client.

Maybe this is because I am testing with a gmail account and it does
weird things.. I don't know.

2) how does Net::POP3 detect when an email is already readed and when
not?
--------

Because I had a lot unread emails on my testing.gmail.account and the
script does not download them.

And on other test I sent a few emails to my testing.gmail.account and
then I read the half of them and then I run my script and it downloaded
all of them, the readed and the unread.

And once the script has downloaded all of the emails, I go to my
gmail.web.email.client and all of them appear as unread.

3) how can I download an email I have already downloaded
--------

How I said on the question 2) does not matter if I mark the email as
unread or not on my gmail.web.email.client.

Once my script has downloaded an email it does not download it again.

I don't think this behavior is not correct, I am a few confused.. that's
all.

Maybe this is not a Ruby question and goes closer to pop protocol.. I
don't know

Any suggestion is welcome.

f.
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