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]
