On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > In other words, it should do: > > 00015 UID SEARCH 1:60 BODY target > > 00016 UID SEARCH 61:120 BODY target > > etc. until it reaches the number of messages in the mailbox: > > 00020 UID SEARCH 300:343 BODY target > > This isn't a complete example -- the client will want to have the UID > of the matched messages as well
It will. Note that the command is UID SEARCH, not UID. In other words, it takes sequences as an argument, but returns UIDs. > and will have to send commands to the > server to retrieve the UID of the matches sequence numbers No, because it got back UIDs, not sequence numbers. > So there isn't > a generic recommendation possible to give here, which I believe is > symptomatic of something missing in the protocol. Do you now agree that you were mistaken? I realize that it can be complicated, but the functionality *is* there. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. "A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhiliaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is agreeably strirred; the wits become more nimble. A bottle produces a contrary effect. Excess causes a comatose insensibility. So it is with war; and the quality of both is best discovered by sipping." -- Winston Churchill
