Re: POP3 Downloads

["Ayitey Bulley" <abulley at ghana.com>]

Thanks Brian it looks like both pop3s I use i.e. courier-imap and qpopper
support UIDL. I will look for pop3 clients that support it.

--Ayitey


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Candler" <B.Candler at pobox.com>
To: "Ayitey Bulley" <abulley at ghana.com>
Cc: <afnog at afnog.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: POP3 Downloads


> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 03:46:03PM -0000, Ayitey Bulley wrote:
> > Lets say I am a dial-in subscriber to an ISP. I have connected to the
ISP to
> > download my mail. In the middle of downloading the mail (say 20 of 200
> > messages), the link breaks.
> >
> > I reconnect to download my mail, it starts from message 1 again.
> >
> > I am looking for a solution where mail downloaded will not be downloaded
> > again i.e. messages successfully received are removed from the server
and
> > not downloaded again.
>
> I suggest using a POP3 client which uses 'UIDL' to determine which
messages
> it has seen and not seen. You might have to turn on an option in your POP3
> client to enable this functionality.
>
> It does depend on the remote POP3 server supporting the 'UIDL' command as
> well (it's "optional" in RFC1939), but many do. You can find out by
> telnetting to port 110, logging in (USER xxx // PASS yyy) and then seeing
if
> UIDL produces a response.
>
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