Hello All,
I have been following this thread and it just dawned on me that IMail may actually
reassign the ID's when the server is rebooted. Someone would have to try this to
confirm it, but I used to leave a copy of my messages on the server and I think it
used to redownload them if the server was rebooted.
I don't keep messages on server anymore, therefore I can not check this. Please
correct me if I am wrong.
Grant Griffith
http://www.getafreewebsite.com
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Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 14:28:58 -0400
>> I'm unsure of the mechanism here. Who is keeping track of
>> read/unread messages in POP3? Is this an Outlook problem, as I
>> suspect, or is it an IMail problem? Where Microsoft is involved,
>> I'm never quick to blame the other guys ;-)
>
>The client is responsible for keeping track of which messages it has downloaded --
>but the server is responsible for identifying them.
>
>When the client connects, it usually issues a UIDL command, to which the POP3 server
>responds with a list of all E-mails and their IDs. The mail client then compares the
>IDs to determine which are new.
>
>If Outlook "forgets" IDs that it has already downloaded, it will re-download the
>E-mails, causing this problem. OTOH, if IMail were to re-assign IDs (which I think
>would be difficult), the same problem would occur. So, like most client/server
>problems, it isn't easy to determine who is at fault.
> -Scott
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