On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:48:14AM +0000, Gu�bj�rn Hreinsson wrote:
> Hi, this is perhaps slightly off topic, if so I apologize.
>
> I am moving/migrating maildrops from NT Mail to Unix, I have all the
> details hammered out except that some clients will redownload all
> the messages in the maildrop if the user has selected to leave mail
> on the server... Outlook and Netscape at least but Eudora seems to
> retain the status between servers... Fetchmail also seems to realise
> that the messages have been read and should not be redownloaded.
>
> So my question is how do clients determine the status of the maildrop?
> Do they use TOP, UIDL, scan the Status header or X-UID[L] header or
> some esoteric thing?
Generally speaking, I believe they *should* be using the output of the
UIDL command and comparing it to the UIDL headers on what they've
downloaded.
I don't have any info on what the different clients actually are doing.
-- Clifton
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