Further to my CFPOP frustrations, does anyone know of a way to
determine the MIME type of the attachments? This is a bug I need to
close from awhile ago, and last time I looked at it, you can't.

Regards,

Jon


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:20:42 +1000, Jon Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is somewhat of a complex issue. The scenario works as follows:
> 
> 1. My POP account receives several emails. Fetching them with CF, the
> DATE column of the returned CFPOP query are all the same, for example
> 01/01/2000 10:10:10. The action is "getHeaderOnly".
> 
> 2. I fetch the emails using a regular POP3 client (Thunderbird 1.0 in
> this case), they display the correct date. This client is set to
> "delete" as they are downloaded.
> 
> 3. I then send some more emails to my POP account and fetch them using
> CF. The DATE column is essentially "refreshed" to the time that
> Thunderbird fetched/deleted the emails.
> 
> If I switch off the "delete after download" option in Thunderbird, the
> date/time is not refreshed.
> 
> This leads me to the conclusion that the DATE column in the query
> returned by CFPOP IS NOT parsed from the date header of the email
> message.
> 
> <rant>
> 
> Is it just me, or is this behaviour incredibly stupid? Is my POP3
> daemon (courier pop3d MySQL enabled) broken? Yes, my system time is
> correct: synchronized with two stratum 1 NTP servers.
> 
> Is there a way to access the raw message source so I can at least
> parse it out myself?
> 
> Is this wrong, or am I just crazy. What the frig is the point of
> having a half-assed poorly implemented POP3 client? God help me when I
> need to start using CFFTP or CFHTTP.
> 
> And no, don't tell me to use CFX_POP or something else, because a) the
> Macromedia implementation should work and b) I'm hosted on a Unix
> environment.
> 
> Don't even get me started on the broken inline image CID munging issue in 
> CFPOP.
> 
> </rant>
> 
> Frustratingly yours,
> 
> Jono
>

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