Hi I am playing with the Net::POP3 library and some questions have
jumped up on my head:
This is my code:
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.