From 2f57b3f62b4924846c8631dbd108ad3dbe7db932 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:09:57 +0000 Subject: Give up on UIDs. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2910 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail-FAQ.html') diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index f871b125..5abde57d 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
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Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -2826,6 +2826,17 @@ over and over? First, check to see that you haven't enabled the keep and fetchall option. If you have, turn keep off.

+There are various forms of lossage involving the POP3 UIDL feature +that can lead to all your old messages being seen again after a line +drop. I have given up trying to fix these, as the UIDL code breaks +worse every time I touch it. The problem is fundamental; maintaining +and garbage-collecting the right kind of client-side state is just +hard. Whoever put UIDLs in RFC1725 and removed LAST should be hung +up by his thumbs and whipped with scorpions. The right answers are +either (a) live with the occasional breakage, (b) switch to IMAP4, +or (c) fix the code yourself and send me a patch. Unless you choose +(c), I don't want to hear about it.

+ This can also happen when some other mail client is logged in to your mail server, if it uses a simple exclusive-locking scheme (and many, especially most POP3 servers, do exactly that). Your fetchmail is @@ -2867,7 +2878,7 @@ install Linux on your server...

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Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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