Re: POP3 "LAST" command

2003-06-30 Thread Ken Murchison
FWIW, I removed LAST from Cyrus 2.2. I read through all of the ietf-pop3 archives and it seems as if this command was ill-defined and doomed from the start. It was removed from the POP3 spec two RFC's ago and replaced by UIDL as the correct way for clients to track which messages it has alrea

Re: POP3 "LAST" command

2003-06-24 Thread Ken Murchison
David Carter wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Ken Murchison wrote: RFC 1460 says nothing about maintaining this info across sessions. It also doesn't prohibit it. The Cyrus behavior seems perfectly reasonable and correct according to the ancient spec which defines it. Yep. I wasn't suggesting th

Re: POP3 "LAST" command

2003-06-24 Thread David Carter
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Ken Murchison wrote: > RFC 1460 says nothing about maintaining this info across sessions. It > also doesn't prohibit it. The Cyrus behavior seems perfectly reasonable > and correct according to the ancient spec which defines it. Yep. I wasn't suggesting the behaviour is unr

Re: POP3 "LAST" command

2003-06-24 Thread Ken Murchison
David Carter wrote: Hi everyone, I'm in the process of migrating from the UW IMAP and POP servers to Cyrus. One of my fetchmail users has picked up an inconsistency in the way that the two POP servers handle the POP3 LAST command. The LAST command appears to be obsolete, but is still fetchmail'