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From: "Simon Byrnand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Vasilios Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Subscribers of Qpopper"
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Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: X-UIDL


> At 19:51 5/03/03 -0500, Vasilios Hoffman wrote:
> > > ./configure --help
> > >
> > >   --enable-old-uidl        Use old UID encoding

> It's not well documented, and I havn't used that option myself. Grepping
> the source tree and the only mention of it I can see (apart from in the
> configure script itself) is in doc/Relase.Notes.

I actually found the option in the manual version of the documentation.
Although it gives a clear indication of the intended purpose, I found that
even using this option in our migration from v3 to v4 manifested the same
behavior.

> Might pay to read that as it talks about using the option in conjunction
> with --disable-status, although its not clear to me what the right choice
> would be...

I don't recall this in the manual, but it might well explain why we still
had the UIDL/message redownload behavior after the upgrade.

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