On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 02:00:24PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
> Some people where I work use pop3 at home and at work. When they check their
> mail from home, they are leaving the messages on the server. The problem
> happens when they get to work the next day. Apparently, when using the old
> pop3 server, messages they had already downloaded from home were marked
> "read". But now, with qmail-pop3d, they show up as "unread" when the people
> come into work.
>
> Anyone know why this problem happens? I assume it is some POP3
> feature/extension that qmail-pop3d doesn't support. By the way, the people
> complaining are using Eudora.
I encountered the same problem.
qmail-pop3d does not support the (deprecated) LAST command. Instead, it
generates a unique ID for each message which it sends in response to the
UIDL command. This is supposed to be cached by the client and used to
figure out which messages it has already read. The idea was to remove
the 'state' onus from the server and give it to the client.
No solution, realy. Tell 'em if they want to leave mail on the server,
use a protocol designed for that, like IMAP. Or find a client that
correctly implements the POP3 protocol.
Ben
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