At 5:33 PM -0400 7/22/02, chris imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: >I have a user that is trying to set up Yahoo mail to read his email box >on my SIMS server. I don't know anything about Yahoo mail, but he is >telling me that it works fine for collecting all mail, but it won't let >him just check the new mail. He says it complains that SIMS doesn't >support the LAST command, and so he keeps getting all his email, rather >than just the new stuff (he doesn't want to delete it when read, because >he wants to be able to download it later in another mail client for >storage) > >I checked, and sure enough, SIMS doesn't support it. But I thought POP >clients were supposed to track what has and has not been read, and not >the server. So it would seem to me that SIMS should NOT have a LAST >command anyway.
It seems absolutely correct to you. >Has someone else set up use with Yahoo mail? Does anyone know if the LAST >command is something SIMS should be supporting (or at least is is a >normal POP command?) The LAST command was always a bad idea. It was removed from the formal spec of POP3 2 revisions ago, in 1994. Any well-designed POP3 client will use the UIDL command to get unique identifiers for each message and track the retrieval status of each one. The server shouldn't need to (and in SIMS cases, doesn't) maintain state information about each message. -- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
