Charles Cazabon wrote:
> No. "LAST" is obsolete. Instead, his client should be using UIDL to get a
> unique identifier for the message, and keep track of the returned identifiers
> so it knows which messages it has already seen.
Thanks for the news that LAST is obsolete. >:P
Then Ben Beuchler sent me a note that actually had the RFC (1725) where it
was deprecated.
And i *know* that with 1700 messages he really should be using IMAP.
(Installing Courier has been on my to-do list for a while.)
But as far as POP LAST goes, here's yet *another* reason that Yahoo
mail sucks:
The full story is, one of my users lost his job, and no longer has
telnet/ssh access to my machine. He's using a PC at the library,
which only offers web access.
i was looking into installing one of the web interfaces to qmail, but in
the meantime, he discovered that Yahoo offered a "POP from other
accounts" option. But as it turns out, their POP client actually uses
LAST. (http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/ext/ext-02.html)
Hotmail, on the other hand, seems to do the right thing.
So i'm recommending he change providers... And maybe i'll get that
web UI up this weekend.
Thanks for all of your help.
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