On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:42 , Joseph Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > No one proved that the variable length was the problem. That was > a guess.
Wan't it the dot/period that Cyrus uses? Alan Thew > > Joseph Brennan > Columbia University Information Technology > > > > > > --On Tuesday, February 21, 2006 16:27 +0100 Reinhard Proessler > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> In december 2005 was a thread about downloading multible messages >> via pop3 with Outlook as email client. The reason for this problem >> was a wrong or broken handling of MS Outlook with the UIDL of cyrus >> imapd(pop3d). >> >> Cyrus Imapd uses a UIDL with variable length (rfc conform) but Outlook >> can not handle this variable length and starts over to download the >> message if it meets a point where the UIDL changes. >> >> Well. The problem is caused by Outlook. >> But I have to fix this problem, but I can not fix Outlook, you know. >> >> Now my questions: >> >> Has anybody out there already started to work on a patch for the cyrus >> server? >> Are there any suggestions where to patch the (correct working) imapd|popd? >> >> Hints and cooperations are welcome >> >> Reinhard Proessler >> ::: Senator Lines/Hanjin Shipping >> ::: Coorporate IT >> >> >> ---- >> Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus >> Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu >> List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html >> > > > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html