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Re: [EAI] AD review of draft-ietf-eai-pop-06

Randall Gellens <randy@qualcomm.com> Mon, 27 July 2009 16:40 UTC

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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:38:03 -0700
To: Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
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Subject: Re: [EAI] AD review of draft-ietf-eai-pop-06
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At 3:00 PM +0200 7/27/09, Alexey Melnikov wrote:

>  Randall Gellens wrote:
>
>>  At 11:04 AM +0200 7/27/09, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
>>
>>>   My concern was about clients caching message sizes between 
>>> sessions, maybe to help identify messages uniquely. But that 
>>> might not be a real problem.
>>
>>  We have a unique identifier (UID) for that :-)
>
>  Which don't have to be unique among all messages in POP, as far as 
> I remember...

RFC 1939 requires that UID "uniquely identifies a message within a 
maildrop and which persists across sessions".

Besides, clients creating their own UIDs are more likely to hash 
selects headers than to consider size, in my opinion.

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Randall Gellens
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