On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:18:38AM -0700, Clint Sharp wrote:
Well, IMAP has more than one mechanism defined to detect this:
- The \Seen flag
- The UID mechanism
I personally don't see a need for a third, as it violates the spirit of the
protocol (i.e. the protocol designers put those features in for a purpose).
Perhaps if fetchmail had a 'plug-in' type architecture then unusual or
specialised configurations like this could be more easily supported.
POP3 supports three
?
POP3 has one - UIDL.
Prehistoric POP3 (RFC1460) had another - LAST. It vanished in RFC1725 and
the current standard is RFC1939, although it is still supported in fetchmail
(unfortunately). It's the analogue of IMAP \Seen
I'm not aware of any other.
Regards,
Brian.