Re: POP3 message download order

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Matt wrote:

Hi,
I'm not sure why, but my messages get downloaded to my inbox (POP3 account)
from newest to oldest. How can I change this so they're downloaded from
oldest to newest? They used to come like this before.
Thanks.

POP does not have a 'date' command. That is, there is no command in
Post Office Protocol to check the date of an item in your mailbox. It
uses USER and PASS to get your login credentials, LIST to get the
indexes of items in your mailbox, UIDL to get a unique ID string
associated with each item, RETR to retrieve an item, TOP n to retrieve
the headers and only the first n-lines of an item, and DELE to delete
items in your mailbox. STAT shows how many items are in the mailbox,
RSET is to renumber the indexing on the items to eliminate gaps in the
numerical sequence. No DATE command.

POP commands:
USER
PASS
STAT
LIST
UIDL
RETR
DELE
TOP
APOP
NOOP
QUIT

POP has no clue that one e-mail came in today and another has been
sitting there for months.

If Outlook was showing retrieved e-mails in a particular order then it
was an ordering defined within Outlook. Click on the column headers to
toggle between ascending/descending sort on that column, or go edit the
view used to display that folder.
.



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