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diff --git a/design-notes.html b/design-notes.html index 71b25905..ef2cc07a 100644 --- a/design-notes.html +++ b/design-notes.html @@ -73,11 +73,12 @@ suffer. ESR is right in stating that the POP3 UID tracks which messages have been read <em>by this client</em> – and that is exactly what we need to do.</p> -<p>If fetchmail is supposed to retrieve all -mail from a mailbox reliably, without being disturbed by someone -occasionally using another client on another host, or a webmailer, or -similar, then <em>client</em>-side tracking of the state is -indispensable. This is also needed to match behavior to ETRN and ODMR.</p> +<p>If fetchmail is supposed to retrieve all mail from a mailbox +reliably, without being disturbed by someone occasionally using another +client on another host, or a webmailer, or similar, then +<em>client</em>-side tracking of the state is indispensable. This is +also needed to match behavior to ETRN and ODMR or to support read-only +mailboxes in --keep mode.</p> <h3>Present and future</h3> |