> That was about as far as we got in our investigation. And of course
> we're checking into an update for Sendmail. The question is, if it's
> optional, how do you get CFPOP to not send the command?
Good question, but I don't know the answer.
> And where's the documentation for this feature anyway? It sounds like a
> fantastic improvement to CFPOP--The ability to download only those
> messages which haven't yet been read. But it sounds like Allaire's
> sneaking it in without letting us know how to make use of it. Or am I
> missing something?
It's in the official internet RFC's. Forget the numbers offhand. UIDL is
actually a very old optional command that has been around since (I believe)
before the internet was opened up to commerical business. Many, many years.
Without UIDL when you open a pop3 session to read some email it locks the
account and simply numbers all the mail 1 through whatever. If you log out
of the pop3 account and back in the numbers will always refer to different
pieces of mail if you've deleted (DELE) any.
UIDL assigns each mail a unique sequence of alphanumerics (such as:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) that never changes.
Usually I'd bitch about CFPOP and how it doesn't work :) but in this one
case UIDL, optional though it may technically still be, is so widely used I
tend to blame your mail server more. Adding UIDL wouldn't be THAT much
harder to do afterall, even if it isn't required.
--min
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