qmail-pop3d broken LAST command
I noticed that qmail-pop3d always responds with: +OK 0 to the pop3 command LAST This behavior makes pop3 clients like fetchmail unable to know which messages are new and thus download all the messages. So running fetchmail two successive times without deleting mail from the pop3 server would retrieve two copies of all messages. Is there any patch out for that ? Thanks
Re: qmail-pop3d broken LAST command
I noticed that qmail-pop3d always responds with: +OK 0 to the pop3 command LAST This behavior makes pop3 clients like fetchmail unable to know which messages are new and thus download all the messages. So running fetchmail two successive times without deleting mail from the pop3 server would retrieve two copies of all messages. Is there any patch out for that ? Thanks http://homepages.munich.netsurf.de/Franz.Sirl/qmail-pop3d-1.03.diff -- CYA, Michael
Re: qmail-pop3d broken LAST command
Eng. Ramy M. Hassan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed that qmail-pop3d always responds with: +OK 0 to the pop3 command LAST. LAST is a broken design; it requires the server to maintain state information which really should be stored on the client. This behavior makes pop3 clients like fetchmail unable to know which messages are new and thus download all the messages. No. Your POP3 retriever should just use the UIDL command to get a unique signature for the message, and keep a list of signatures which it has already seen. My own POP3 retriever, getmail, does this. It works quite happily with qmail-pop3d and every other POP3 daemon I've tried. There are a few ancient POP3 servers out there which don't support UIDL, though. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ---
