[xmail] Re: Message ID Numbers?
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imap-headers.php That is the function required to download the headers for the messages. All it does is download each message in the order that it is listed, and stores it in an array with the keys coorisponding to the number to the left of the message in both UIDL and LIST. Dustin C. Hatch http://www.dchweb.com I would be looking further into the capabilities of pop3 under PHP. I would be _very_ surprised if it did not support UIDL. Rob :-) _ Signature: Live like you'll die tomorrow! Reply: I tried your signature out once. It took years off my life! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dustin C. Hatch Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 10:13 AM To: xmail@xmailserver.org Subject: [xmail] Re: Message ID Numbers? As I said, PHP does the downloading, so I have no control over what command it uses. I think I can make my program use the message numbers only once, and after that use the UIDL numbers, but I have no control over how they are referenced initially by php. Dustin C. Hatch http://www.dchweb,com As Davide said, those numbers are only valid for the specific POP3 session that you received them in. Future sessions are not guaranteed to have the same numbers for the same messages. You should use the UIDL numbers. Retrieve them as: +OK Maildrop has 4 messages (12788 bytes) UIDL +OK 4 1 1028745740408.1556.karen 2 1062432866368.1924.karen 3 1062433302173.1404.karen 4 1067127927549.1956.karen These numbers (1028745740408.1556.karen) are guaranteed not to change between sessions. At 17:48 3/30/2005, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: Okay, I guess I should clarify what I mean by message ID numbers. PHP downloads the messages over POP3 as you would using telnet. The message IDs that it uses are just like you would using the command line to read mail: LIST +OK 15 70871 1 5427 2 1826 3 16834 4 4043 5 3875 6 2373 7 15345 8 1642 9 3229 10 2662 11 3882 12 3052 13 3524 14 1382 15 1775 The problem is that these IDs do not stay the same if new mail arrives. I may be able to re-write the program to use the Message-ID: header, if this is unchangeable. If someone has a better suggestion, let me know. Dustin C. Hatch http://www.dchweb.com On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: I recently developed a webmail client for POP3/POP3S so that I could use native XMail support and webmail. The way the inbox is designed, messages are released in reverse order of their MTA assigned ID number, ie 1 is on the bottom, 2 next, a googol on the top, etc. This worked fine for a while, until I started getting many messages in my inbox. Then I started noticing that the messages were no longer arranged in order of their dates. I thought it was no big deal and just modified the code to sort the messages by date after converting them to a UNIX timestamp, etc. This worked for a while. The problem further complicated itself one day while I was reading a message, and, for a reason I now have forgotten, I refrehed the page, and the email changed! A new message had arrived while I was reading and had taken over the old message's ID number. This forced the message I was reading, and all subsequent messages, to increment their IDs. I was wondering if this is a flaw in XMail, or if that is the way all MTAs work. I have never used anything else, so I don't know if others just generate seemingly random IDs for incoming messages. If it is a flaw, can it be fixed? Because my client fully relies on the message ID number for all functions, like deletion, forwarding, and replying, I need to have messages have constant ID numbers. You are aware that POP3 server are not guaranteed to preserve message IDs across session, yes? That's why UIDL have been added to the protocol, and XMail supports it. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED
[xmail] Re: Message ID Numbers?
I wrote a web-based mail access program (very simplistic) a year or so ago. Writing a TCP/IP module to handle the POP3 access to the mail isn't that hard - might be worth doing to give yourself some flexibility. At 19:20 3/31/2005, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: As I said, PHP does the downloading, so I have no control over what command it uses. I think I can make my program use the message numbers only once, and after that use the UIDL numbers, but I have no control over how they are referenced initially by php. Dustin C. Hatch http://www.dchweb,com As Davide said, those numbers are only valid for the specific POP3 session that you received them in. Future sessions are not guaranteed to have the same numbers for the same messages. You should use the UIDL numbers. Retrieve them as: +OK Maildrop has 4 messages (12788 bytes) UIDL +OK 4 1 1028745740408.1556.karen 2 1062432866368.1924.karen 3 1062433302173.1404.karen 4 1067127927549.1956.karen These numbers (1028745740408.1556.karen) are guaranteed not to change between sessions. At 17:48 3/30/2005, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: Okay, I guess I should clarify what I mean by message ID numbers. PHP downloads the messages over POP3 as you would using telnet. The message IDs that it uses are just like you would using the command line to read mail: LIST +OK 15 70871 1 5427 2 1826 3 16834 4 4043 5 3875 6 2373 7 15345 8 1642 9 3229 10 2662 11 3882 12 3052 13 3524 14 1382 15 1775 The problem is that these IDs do not stay the same if new mail arrives. I may be able to re-write the program to use the Message-ID: header, if this is unchangeable. If someone has a better suggestion, let me know. Dustin C. Hatch http://www.dchweb.com On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: I recently developed a webmail client for POP3/POP3S so that I could use native XMail support and webmail. The way the inbox is designed, messages are released in reverse order of their MTA assigned ID number, ie 1 is on the bottom, 2 next, a googol on the top, etc. This worked fine for a while, until I started getting many messages in my inbox. Then I started noticing that the messages were no longer arranged in order of their dates. I thought it was no big deal and just modified the code to sort the messages by date after converting them to a UNIX timestamp, etc. This worked for a while. The problem further complicated itself one day while I was reading a message, and, for a reason I now have forgotten, I refrehed the page, and the email changed! A new message had arrived while I was reading and had taken over the old message's ID number. This forced the message I was reading, and all subsequent messages, to increment their IDs. I was wondering if this is a flaw in XMail, or if that is the way all MTAs work. I have never used anything else, so I don't know if others just generate seemingly random IDs for incoming messages. If it is a flaw, can it be fixed? Because my client fully relies on the message ID number for all functions, like deletion, forwarding, and replying, I need to have messages have constant ID numbers. You are aware that POP3 server are not guaranteed to preserve message IDs across session, yes? That's why UIDL have been added to the protocol, and XMail supports it. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Message ID Numbers?
As I said, PHP does the downloading, so I have no control over what command it uses. I think I can make my program use the message numbers only once, and after that use the UIDL numbers, but I have no control over how they are referenced initially by php. Dustin C. Hatch http://www.dchweb,com As Davide said, those numbers are only valid for the specific POP3 session that you received them in. Future sessions are not guaranteed to have the same numbers for the same messages. You should use the UIDL numbers. Retrieve them as: +OK Maildrop has 4 messages (12788 bytes) UIDL +OK 4 1 1028745740408.1556.karen 2 1062432866368.1924.karen 3 1062433302173.1404.karen 4 1067127927549.1956.karen These numbers (1028745740408.1556.karen) are guaranteed not to change between sessions. At 17:48 3/30/2005, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: Okay, I guess I should clarify what I mean by message ID numbers. PHP downloads the messages over POP3 as you would using telnet. The message IDs that it uses are just like you would using the command line to read mail: LIST +OK 15 70871 1 5427 2 1826 3 16834 4 4043 5 3875 6 2373 7 15345 8 1642 9 3229 10 2662 11 3882 12 3052 13 3524 14 1382 15 1775 The problem is that these IDs do not stay the same if new mail arrives. I may be able to re-write the program to use the Message-ID: header, if this is unchangeable. If someone has a better suggestion, let me know. Dustin C. Hatch http://www.dchweb.com On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: I recently developed a webmail client for POP3/POP3S so that I could use native XMail support and webmail. The way the inbox is designed, messages are released in reverse order of their MTA assigned ID number, ie 1 is on the bottom, 2 next, a googol on the top, etc. This worked fine for a while, until I started getting many messages in my inbox. Then I started noticing that the messages were no longer arranged in order of their dates. I thought it was no big deal and just modified the code to sort the messages by date after converting them to a UNIX timestamp, etc. This worked for a while. The problem further complicated itself one day while I was reading a message, and, for a reason I now have forgotten, I refrehed the page, and the email changed! A new message had arrived while I was reading and had taken over the old message's ID number. This forced the message I was reading, and all subsequent messages, to increment their IDs. I was wondering if this is a flaw in XMail, or if that is the way all MTAs work. I have never used anything else, so I don't know if others just generate seemingly random IDs for incoming messages. If it is a flaw, can it be fixed? Because my client fully relies on the message ID number for all functions, like deletion, forwarding, and replying, I need to have messages have constant ID numbers. You are aware that POP3 server are not guaranteed to preserve message IDs across session, yes? That's why UIDL have been added to the protocol, and XMail supports it. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Message ID Numbers?
As I said, PHP does the downloading, so I have no control over what command it uses. I think I can make my program use the message numbers only once, and after that use the UIDL numbers, but I have no control over how they are referenced initially by php. Dustin C. Hatch http://www.dchweb,com As Davide said, those numbers are only valid for the specific POP3 session that you received them in. Future sessions are not guaranteed to have the same numbers for the same messages. You should use the UIDL numbers. Retrieve them as: +OK Maildrop has 4 messages (12788 bytes) UIDL +OK 4 1 1028745740408.1556.karen 2 1062432866368.1924.karen 3 1062433302173.1404.karen 4 1067127927549.1956.karen These numbers (1028745740408.1556.karen) are guaranteed not to change between sessions. At 17:48 3/30/2005, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: Okay, I guess I should clarify what I mean by message ID numbers. PHP downloads the messages over POP3 as you would using telnet. The message IDs that it uses are just like you would using the command line to read mail: LIST +OK 15 70871 1 5427 2 1826 3 16834 4 4043 5 3875 6 2373 7 15345 8 1642 9 3229 10 2662 11 3882 12 3052 13 3524 14 1382 15 1775 The problem is that these IDs do not stay the same if new mail arrives. I may be able to re-write the program to use the Message-ID: header, if this is unchangeable. If someone has a better suggestion, let me know. Dustin C. Hatch http://www.dchweb.com On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: I recently developed a webmail client for POP3/POP3S so that I could use native XMail support and webmail. The way the inbox is designed, messages are released in reverse order of their MTA assigned ID number, ie 1 is on the bottom, 2 next, a googol on the top, etc. This worked fine for a while, until I started getting many messages in my inbox. Then I started noticing that the messages were no longer arranged in order of their dates. I thought it was no big deal and just modified the code to sort the messages by date after converting them to a UNIX timestamp, etc. This worked for a while. The problem further complicated itself one day while I was reading a message, and, for a reason I now have forgotten, I refrehed the page, and the email changed! A new message had arrived while I was reading and had taken over the old message's ID number. This forced the message I was reading, and all subsequent messages, to increment their IDs. I was wondering if this is a flaw in XMail, or if that is the way all MTAs work. I have never used anything else, so I don't know if others just generate seemingly random IDs for incoming messages. If it is a flaw, can it be fixed? Because my client fully relies on the message ID number for all functions, like deletion, forwarding, and replying, I need to have messages have constant ID numbers. You are aware that POP3 server are not guaranteed to preserve message IDs across session, yes? That's why UIDL have been added to the protocol, and XMail supports it. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Message ID Numbers?
I would be looking further into the capabilities of pop3 under PHP. I would be _very_ surprised if it did not support UIDL. Rob :-) _ Signature: Live like you'll die tomorrow! Reply: I tried your signature out once. It took years off my life! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dustin C. Hatch Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 10:13 AM To: xmail@xmailserver.org Subject: [xmail] Re: Message ID Numbers? As I said, PHP does the downloading, so I have no control over what command it uses. I think I can make my program use the message numbers only once, and after that use the UIDL numbers, but I have no control over how they are referenced initially by php. Dustin C. Hatch http://www.dchweb,com As Davide said, those numbers are only valid for the specific POP3 session that you received them in. Future sessions are not guaranteed to have the same numbers for the same messages. You should use the UIDL numbers. Retrieve them as: +OK Maildrop has 4 messages (12788 bytes) UIDL +OK 4 1 1028745740408.1556.karen 2 1062432866368.1924.karen 3 1062433302173.1404.karen 4 1067127927549.1956.karen These numbers (1028745740408.1556.karen) are guaranteed not to change between sessions. At 17:48 3/30/2005, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: Okay, I guess I should clarify what I mean by message ID numbers. PHP downloads the messages over POP3 as you would using telnet. The message IDs that it uses are just like you would using the command line to read mail: LIST +OK 15 70871 1 5427 2 1826 3 16834 4 4043 5 3875 6 2373 7 15345 8 1642 9 3229 10 2662 11 3882 12 3052 13 3524 14 1382 15 1775 The problem is that these IDs do not stay the same if new mail arrives. I may be able to re-write the program to use the Message-ID: header, if this is unchangeable. If someone has a better suggestion, let me know. Dustin C. Hatch http://www.dchweb.com On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: I recently developed a webmail client for POP3/POP3S so that I could use native XMail support and webmail. The way the inbox is designed, messages are released in reverse order of their MTA assigned ID number, ie 1 is on the bottom, 2 next, a googol on the top, etc. This worked fine for a while, until I started getting many messages in my inbox. Then I started noticing that the messages were no longer arranged in order of their dates. I thought it was no big deal and just modified the code to sort the messages by date after converting them to a UNIX timestamp, etc. This worked for a while. The problem further complicated itself one day while I was reading a message, and, for a reason I now have forgotten, I refrehed the page, and the email changed! A new message had arrived while I was reading and had taken over the old message's ID number. This forced the message I was reading, and all subsequent messages, to increment their IDs. I was wondering if this is a flaw in XMail, or if that is the way all MTAs work. I have never used anything else, so I don't know if others just generate seemingly random IDs for incoming messages. If it is a flaw, can it be fixed? Because my client fully relies on the message ID number for all functions, like deletion, forwarding, and replying, I need to have messages have constant ID numbers. You are aware that POP3 server are not guaranteed to preserve message IDs across session, yes? That's why UIDL have been added to the protocol, and XMail supports it. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Message ID Numbers?
I have the same problem with NOCC , I think I was the only one. and my english is too bad to to post Dustin C. Hatch escribioacute;: I recently developed a webmail client for POP3/POP3S so that I could use native XMail support and webmail. The way the inbox is designed, messages are released in reverse order of their MTA assigned ID number, ie 1 is on the bottom, 2 next, a googol on the top, etc. This worked fine for a while, until I started getting many messages in my inbox. Then I started noticing that the messages were no longer arranged in order of their dates. I thought it was no big deal and just modified the codeto sort the messages by date after converting them to a UNIX timestamp, etc. This worked for a while. The problem further complicated itself one day while I was reading a message, and, for a reason I now have forgotten, I refrehed the page, and the email changed! A new message had arrived while I was reading and had taken over the old message's ID number. This forced the message I was reading, and all subsequent messages, to increment their IDs. Iwas wondering if this is a flaw in XMail, or if that is the way all MTAs work. I have never used anything else, so I don't know if others just generate seemingly random IDs for incoming messages. If it is a flaw, can it be fixed? Because my client fully relies on the message ID number for all functions, like deletion, forwarding, and replying, I need to have messages have constant ID numbers. I would appreciate any information regarding this issue. Thanks in advance, Dustin C. Hatch http://www.dchweb.com[1] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Links --- 1 http://www.dchweb.com 2 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Message ID Numbers?
Which number are you using for the message ID number? How are you getting this number? At 07:04 3/30/2005, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: I recently developed a webmail client for POP3/POP3S so that I could use native XMail support and webmail. The way the inbox is designed, messages are released in reverse order of their MTA assigned ID number, ie 1 is on the bottom, 2 next, a googol on the top, etc. This worked fine for a while, until I started getting many messages in my inbox. Then I started noticing that the messages were no longer arranged in order of their dates. I thought it was no big deal and just modified the code to sort the messages by date after converting them to a UNIX timestamp, etc. This worked for a while. The problem further complicated itself one day while I was reading a message, and, for a reason I now have forgotten, I refrehed the page, and the email changed! A new message had arrived while I was reading and had taken over the old message's ID number. This forced the message I was reading, and all subsequent messages, to increment their IDs. I was wondering if this is a flaw in XMail, or if that is the way all MTAs work. I have never used anything else, so I don't know if others just generate seemingly random IDs for incoming messages. If it is a flaw, can it be fixed? Because my client fully relies on the message ID number for all functions, like deletion, forwarding, and replying, I need to have messages have constant ID numbers. I would appreciate any information regarding this issue. Thanks in advance, Dustin C. Hatch http://www.dchweb.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Message ID Numbers?
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: I recently developed a webmail client for POP3/POP3S so that I could use native XMail support and webmail. The way the inbox is designed, messages are released in reverse order of their MTA assigned ID number, ie 1 is on the bottom, 2 next, a googol on the top, etc. This worked fine for a while, until I started getting many messages in my inbox. Then I started noticing that the messages were no longer arranged in order of their dates. I thought it was no big deal and just modified the code to sort the messages by date after converting them to a UNIX timestamp, etc. This worked for a while. The problem further complicated itself one day while I was reading a message, and, for a reason I now have forgotten, I refrehed the page, and the email changed! A new message had arrived while I was reading and had taken over the old message's ID number. This forced the message I was reading, and all subsequent messages, to increment their IDs. I was wondering if this is a flaw in XMail, or if that is the way all MTAs work. I have never used anything else, so I don't know if others just generate seemingly random IDs for incoming messages. If it is a flaw, can it be fixed? Because my client fully relies on the message ID number for all functions, like deletion, forwarding, and replying, I need to have messages have constant ID numbers. You are aware that POP3 server are not guaranteed to preserve message IDs across session, yes? That's why UIDL have been added to the protocol, and XMail supports it. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Message ID Numbers?
Okay, I guess I should clarify what I mean by message ID numbers. PHP downloads the messages over POP3 as you would using telnet. The message IDs that it uses are just like you would using the command line to read mail: LIST +OK 15 70871 1 5427 2 1826 3 16834 4 4043 5 3875 6 2373 7 15345 8 1642 9 3229 10 2662 11 3882 12 3052 13 3524 14 1382 15 1775 The problem is that these IDs do not stay the same if new mail arrives. I may be able to re-write the program to use the Message-ID: header, if this is unchangeable. If someone has a better suggestion, let me know. Dustin C. Hatch http://www.dchweb.com On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: I recently developed a webmail client for POP3/POP3S so that I could use native XMail support and webmail. The way the inbox is designed, messages are released in reverse order of their MTA assigned ID number, ie 1 is on the bottom, 2 next, a googol on the top, etc. This worked fine for a while, until I started getting many messages in my inbox. Then I started noticing that the messages were no longer arranged in order of their dates. I thought it was no big deal and just modified the code to sort the messages by date after converting them to a UNIX timestamp, etc. This worked for a while. The problem further complicated itself one day while I was reading a message, and, for a reason I now have forgotten, I refrehed the page, and the email changed! A new message had arrived while I was reading and had taken over the old message's ID number. This forced the message I was reading, and all subsequent messages, to increment their IDs. I was wondering if this is a flaw in XMail, or if that is the way all MTAs work. I have never used anything else, so I don't know if others just generate seemingly random IDs for incoming messages. If it is a flaw, can it be fixed? Because my client fully relies on the message ID number for all functions, like deletion, forwarding, and replying, I need to have messages have constant ID numbers. You are aware that POP3 server are not guaranteed to preserve message IDs across session, yes? That's why UIDL have been added to the protocol, and XMail supports it. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Message ID Numbers?
As Davide said, those numbers are only valid for the specific POP3 session that you received them in. Future sessions are not guaranteed to have the same numbers for the same messages. You should use the UIDL numbers. Retrieve them as: +OK Maildrop has 4 messages (12788 bytes) UIDL +OK 4 1 1028745740408.1556.karen 2 1062432866368.1924.karen 3 1062433302173.1404.karen 4 1067127927549.1956.karen These numbers (1028745740408.1556.karen) are guaranteed not to change between sessions. At 17:48 3/30/2005, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: Okay, I guess I should clarify what I mean by message ID numbers. PHP downloads the messages over POP3 as you would using telnet. The message IDs that it uses are just like you would using the command line to read mail: LIST +OK 15 70871 1 5427 2 1826 3 16834 4 4043 5 3875 6 2373 7 15345 8 1642 9 3229 10 2662 11 3882 12 3052 13 3524 14 1382 15 1775 The problem is that these IDs do not stay the same if new mail arrives. I may be able to re-write the program to use the Message-ID: header, if this is unchangeable. If someone has a better suggestion, let me know. Dustin C. Hatch http://www.dchweb.com On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: I recently developed a webmail client for POP3/POP3S so that I could use native XMail support and webmail. The way the inbox is designed, messages are released in reverse order of their MTA assigned ID number, ie 1 is on the bottom, 2 next, a googol on the top, etc. This worked fine for a while, until I started getting many messages in my inbox. Then I started noticing that the messages were no longer arranged in order of their dates. I thought it was no big deal and just modified the code to sort the messages by date after converting them to a UNIX timestamp, etc. This worked for a while. The problem further complicated itself one day while I was reading a message, and, for a reason I now have forgotten, I refrehed the page, and the email changed! A new message had arrived while I was reading and had taken over the old message's ID number. This forced the message I was reading, and all subsequent messages, to increment their IDs. I was wondering if this is a flaw in XMail, or if that is the way all MTAs work. I have never used anything else, so I don't know if others just generate seemingly random IDs for incoming messages. If it is a flaw, can it be fixed? Because my client fully relies on the message ID number for all functions, like deletion, forwarding, and replying, I need to have messages have constant ID numbers. You are aware that POP3 server are not guaranteed to preserve message IDs across session, yes? That's why UIDL have been added to the protocol, and XMail supports it. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Message ID Numbers?
Okay, I guess I should clarify what I mean by message ID numbers. PHP downloads the messages over POP3 as you would using telnet. The message IDs that it uses are just like you would using the command line to read mail: LIST +OK 15 70871 1 5427 2 1826 3 16834 4 4043 5 3875 [snip] Look at the POP3 command uidl Regards, Brandon Wittenburg - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
