[RFCI-Discuss] Why Yahoo permit to pop messages from junk-folder?

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Tue Jun 20 03:56:04 EDT 2006


On 20.06.06 00:49, Jeff Pang wrote:
> I have a yahoo plus account,I use pop3 to get messages from it.Yahoo's
> antispam features are good, it put the spams to the junk-folder.But when I
> use pop3 in the outlook express,I can pull all the message inculding the
> spams in the junk-folder to my local machine. Is there a RFC specify that
> where the pop3 should get messages from the remote servers?Why yahoo
> permit to pull messages in the junk-folder?Thanks.

This question is out of scope of this mailing list.

...POP3 protocol does not know about mailboxes so it can't specify what
mailboxes (not) to fetch mail from. It's just yahoo thing, ask them

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