Subject: ipop3d from imap distribution. Is if a full implementation?

From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 30 Mar 96 19:52:29 GMT

Even though I think it is entirely reasonable to insist that people login to
the main terminal server on campus and run pine to receive email, more and
more of them want to be able to access their mail with pop3, using either
the win95 mail program, eudora, or netscape.  To that end I installed the
ipop[23]d's today.  When I try to access a test mailbox using ns2 for
solaris over a dialup network connection, and I have the "leave mail on
server" box checked on netscape, I get the following error message:

The POP3 server does not support UIDL, which netscape mail needs to
implement the "Leave on Server"....

If I turn off the option in netscape, pop wants to move all the mail to the
client machine.  I know imapd would work more the way I want it, but users
are not interested in running PC-Pine, they insist on the above apps.

Is netscape misreporting this deficiency in ipop3d, or do I need to find a
different pop daemon for my solaris mailhost.

Thank you for any information/insight.

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 20:32:58 -0800 (PST)

Stew,
The imapd and ipop*d that are shipped with the Pine 3.92 (and earlier)
distributions are based on the version 3 c-client libraries, which
predate the recent addition of UIDL to the POP spec.

For POP UIDL support, you need the ipop*d stuff from:
  ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap-4.BETA.tar.Z

-teg