The wellknown UIDL- Outlook - multiple messages download with pop3 problem

[Alan Thew]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:42 , Joseph Brennan <brennan at columbia.edu> said:

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> No one proved that the variable length was the problem.  That was
> a guess.

Wan't it the dot/period that Cyrus uses?

Alan Thew
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> Joseph Brennan
> Columbia University Information Technology
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> --On Tuesday, February 21, 2006 16:27 +0100 Reinhard Proessler
> <uxn+cyruslist at de.hanjin.com> wrote:
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>> Hello!
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>> In december 2005 was a thread about downloading multible messages
>> via pop3 with Outlook as email client. The reason for this problem
>> was a wrong or broken handling of MS Outlook with the UIDL of cyrus
>> imapd(pop3d).
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>> Cyrus Imapd uses a UIDL with variable length (rfc conform) but Outlook
>> can not handle this variable length and starts over to download the
>> message if it meets a point where the UIDL changes.
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>> Well. The problem is caused by Outlook.
>> But I have to fix this problem, but I can not fix Outlook, you know.
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>> Now my questions:
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>> Has anybody out there already started to work on a patch for the cyrus
>> server?
>> Are there any suggestions where to patch the (correct working) imapd|popd?
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>> Hints and cooperations are welcome
>> 
>>     Reinhard Proessler
>> ::: Senator Lines/Hanjin Shipping
>> ::: Coorporate IT
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