Re: [fetchmail-users] Re: RETR with UIDL

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Sunil Shetye <sh...@bo...> writes:

> Quoting from Matthias Andree's mail on Fri, Mar 03, 2006:
>> The TODO in SVN's trunk directory already mentions:
>> 
>> | clean up TOP vs. RETR but leave TOP as an option for the server scum
>> | that deletes message right after RETR, voiding client retries (Jakob
>> | Hirsch, 2006-01-03).
>
> Are these "scum" servers supporting "uidl"?

I don't know, but we need to assume they do since that's the worst case.

> Please note that the change I am recommending is that fetchmail
> *should* use RETR with pop3+uidl servers. Other pop3 servers will not
> be affected by this change.

Yes, it's still 6.4.X stuff since it deliberately changes behavior for
no good reason.

fetchmail 6.3.2 already introduced the (incompatible) "use RETR with
Maillennium server" change because it was considered we'd rather screw
some message flags and a LAST pointer rather than truncate messages.

> Are there any logs/bug reports about these "scum" servers?

Sort of. At least the ones that were reported do not delete
messages if the connection is hung up without prior "QUIT" command.
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Matthias Andree