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Re: Internet Draft for flexible proxying of the mail protocols

Terje Bless <link@tss.no> Tue, 03 October 2000 17:12 UTC

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From: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
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Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 18:45:54 +0200
Subject: Re: Internet Draft for flexible proxying of the mail protocols
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On 02.10.00 at 20:40, Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de> wrote:

>Um, there's *nothing* in POP that requires "a download of the entire  
>mailbox to check for new messages".

Doesn't UIDL return a complete message list (message # plus MD5)? IIRC, the
only way to avoid this is to use a "last message" pointer (which doesn't
work well) because POP has no equivalent to NNTP NEWNEWS.

It's a bit hard to tell given the implementation specific problem you
mentioned, but it seems to me that there is significant overhead involved a
trivial mail check using POP. Then again, I've never written a POP MUA of
that magnitude so I may be wrong.


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