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

[Ken Murchison]

Reinhard Proessler wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> 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).
> 
> 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.
> 
> Well. The problem is caused by Outlook.
> But I have to fix this problem, but I can not fix Outlook, you know.

Has anybody reported the bug to MS?  Outlook is still actively 
developed, isn't it?

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University