On Sep 1, 2003, at 12:24 PM, Warren Michelsen wrote:What the devil is the 'LAST' POP3 command? I'm guessing it's a MS thing.
Nope, part of POP (deprecated, I believe). LAST says something like "set the curent message to the last message I accessed on a previous connection." Or something like that. A very poor-man's IMAP?
It is actually supposed to return the last message retrieved by he client. Unfortunately, POP3 is not a strictly sequential protocol, so a good client that implements facilities to leave messages on the server for whatever reason really cannot get much use out of the LAST command because of its deep ambiguity and already has to track such state on its own.
In my opinion, the really useful feature advantages of IMAP over POP3 are largely overblown.
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Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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