On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Randall Gellens wrote: > Also, if the X-UIDL headers in the spool file (on the server) were > stripped, Qpopper would regenerate the UID. Unless no_status is set, > Qpopper includes a random element in the UID generation. Thus, the > same message will get a different UID and hence be redownloaded. > (When no_status is set, Qpopper doesn't include the random number, > and UIDs are repeatable. But there is also a chance of generating > the same UID for different messages, if the headers are identical.)
>From an ISP point of view, having the users download the messages repeatedly until they delete them is - desireable. AB
