[Info-vax] A POP oddity, moves messages to MAIL without reading them

[Peter Weaver]

On Sep 16, 4:57 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> IMAP leaves messages in the "INBOX" (or NEWMAIL to be precise) after
> they have been read, but are marked as read.
>
> Was testing connection via mobile thethering, and decided to
>
> TELNET myhost 110
>
> USER myuser
> PASS mypassword
> LIST
>
> Instead of listing about 100 messages, it listed 547 of them.
> (that list is a message number (1 to 547) and the message size. This
> command took forever to complete.
>
> Then, I tried RETR 547 to see what the newest message was, and I got an
> error about insufficient virtual memory.
>
> So I quit.
>
> Upon coming back to my real mac, I found out that POP had moved all the
> mail in NEWMAIL to READ, despite having no succesful READ operation done
>  during that POP session. (and certaintly not read hundreds of messages,
> I only attempred to read one).
>
> Mail services will be the first thing coming off VMS when I get a new
> server in the coming months/weeks.

Do you have "TCPIP$POP_LEAVE_IN_NEWMAIL" defined as "YES?" If you do
then I would say you hit a real bug, if it is not defined then maybe
you hit a bug because you never really read the messages, but then
again maybe that is expected behavior.