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Re: [fetchmail]Fixed UIDL + IMAP patch

2004-05-20 20:17:09
Clint Sharp wrote:

If someone has interest I'd be willing to code a version of the patch which will implement two UIDL methods, somewhat like POP3's does, which for non-broken IMAP implementations will use IMAP UID+UIDVALIDITY+Mailbox to determine the unique UID. Call it imap_fastuidl :). However, it's not necessary in my implementation as I have plenty of bandwidth between my fetchmail client and the IMAP server, so I don't really need it. I don't see a way to auto-detect this (unlike the POP3), so turning on the MD5 header-checksum method or fastuidl method would require a configuration setting. There would then also need to be discussion as to which one is the default (using fastuidl would not be guaranteed to work on all IMAP servers, so I would recommend against that being the default).

Anyone interested in this?

I'm interested. I use the courier imapd server on my server and the box I'm mirroring with the current patch implementation uses Communigate Pro. I'm willing test those two out when you have an updated patch available. This could be the start of a compatibility
list for the UID+UIDVALIDITY+Mailbox uid feature.

I also have plenty of bandwidth between the client and server but I'd
prefer to minimize the amount used as a courtesy to the
other people who also use that server.

Thanks,
  Paul


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