> Why is James returning "-ERR" after the XSENDER

Because XSENDER is not supported.  The command itself is not without some
controversy.  As far as I know, it is a Netscape-specific command, which
Qpopper (Eudora) and even Netscape recommend turning off.

  http://www.eudora.com/qpopper/faq.html#netscape.auth
  http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/thread.php3?subject=xsender&list=126

For those who don't know, XSENDER "[gets] the email address of the sender of
the specified message. Client uses this to query whether an individual
message has been authenticated. Server returns an empty OK string if no
authenticated sender is found."

ref: http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/messaging/msdkj/prorj.htm

It would be possible to support it once we have mail attributes.

> why does Netscape issue a UIDL and restart the process

Who knows.

More disturbing is this sequence:

  Command received: DELE 1
  Sent: +OK Message removed
  Command received: DELE 2
  Sent: +OK Message removed
  Command received: UIDL
  Sent: +OK unique-id listing follows
  Command received: DELE 1
  Sent: +OK Message removed
  Command received: DELE 2
  Sent: +OK Message removed

Something is wrong with that sequence because the second set of deletes
should have returned an -ERR response saying that the message was deleted.
I just tested this using telnet:

  RSET
  +OK
  LIST
  +OK 4 8314
  1 3491
  2 2911
  3 956
  4 956
  .
  DELE 3
  +OK Message removed
  LIST
  +OK 3 7358
  1 3491
  2 2911
  4 956
  .
  UIDL
  +OK unique-id listing follows
  1 Mail1057948559166-4377
  2 Mail1057948805540-4386
  4 Mail1057949404326-4408
  .
  DELE 3
  -ERR Message (3) does not exist.

So that is working as expected.  What verson of James are you using?

In any event, I don't see from your log extract where something is getting
hung-up.  James doesn't hang.  Is Netscape misbehaving?

        --- Noel


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