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

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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