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On Monday, December 16, 2002, Peter Palmreuther wrote...

> The trouble the OP might "be run into" will likely be: the
> POP3-server does not generate the same UID for the same message
> every time. This is a known, but not wide spread problem which can
> only be fixed on server side.

Technically this isn't a 'problem'... well... it is a problem in
respect to downloading mail, as you get duplicates, however it isn't a
problem in respect to what is defined as the rules for the protocol.

,----- [ UIDL ]
| While it is generally preferable for server implementations to store
| arbitrarily assigned unique-ids in the maildrop, this specification is
| intended to permit unique-ids to be calculated as a hash of the
| message.  Clients should be able to handle a situation where two
| identical copies of a message in a maildrop have the same unique-id.
`-----

By definition of the RFCs [1], I don't think UIDL is even a required
command based on the "minimum" list of commands, and "additional"
commands they provide.

[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1939.txt

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Jonathan Angliss
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