[Users] Mail fetch question.

[Mark Filipak]

On 2013/4/7 2:47 PM, Colin Leroy wrote:
> On 07 April 2013 at 12h00, Mark Filipak wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>>> Neither. In between they are stored in a temp folder.
>>
>> That's inefficient. What happens if the app or computer crashes in
>> the mean time?
>
> They usually get downloaded again and there can be duplicates.

Downloaded again?... from a POP server?... How does this magic work?

>> May I suggest you _not_ use a temp folder, that you store the
>> incoming in the Inbox. But as they are received, scoreboard the files
>> in a temp file. At the end, simply process the scoreboard. If things
>> crash, on relaunch, look to see whether the scoreboard still exists.
>> If it does, finish the filtering. Of course, you should always check
>> for the existence of the scoreboard on every launch.
>
> Patches welcome!

Patches? Patches? I don't have no stinking patches.
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