Subject: UIDL support in IPOP3D

From: [email-masked] (Simon Barnes)
Date: 8 Nov 1995 15:23:13 GMT

I notice that Netscape v2b2 expects the POP server to have support for
an optional command called UIDL in order to "leave mail on server" (in
fact, I had to switch my Mac off at the wall to prevent it from
deleting all the mail from the server when Netscape found that the UIDL
command didn't exist).  Therefore it would be quite convenient if the
UIDL command, documented in RFC1725, could be added to the ipop3d
client shipped with imap-3.5 or -3.6.

Simon

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 20:02:07 -0800

> client shipped with imap-3.5 or -3.6.

The UIDL command is supported in the ipop3d client in imap-4.  It is
impossible to add it to imap-3.x since imap-3.x does not have UID support.

Unfortunately, Pine 3.92 will go out with imap-3.6, because it would
further delay the already too-long delayed release of 3.92 to upgrade it
to imap-4 at this late date (there are *major* interface changes in
imap-4).  But 3.92 should be the last release that uses any imap-3.x
version.  In fact, the only reason why imap-3.6 exists at all is for Pine;
imap-3.6 will die once Pine no longer needs it.

You can run the imapd and ipop[23]d servers from imap-4 with Pine 3.91 and
Pine 3.92.  In fact, we do that ourselves on several of our servers.  We
still run the imap-3.6 imapd on our main server, but only because we want
to make sure that it still works and doesn't succumb to software rot. ;-)

-- Mark --

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