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Re: [MORG] POP3 LIST+ Extension: Monitoring for mailbox changes

Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> Sun, 06 February 2011 21:06 UTC

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On 6.2.2011, at 19.54, Mark Crispin wrote:

> It assumes that the vendors of client used by your users, and the vendor
> of your server, all implement this extension; that these implementations
> all interoperate; and that your users promptly upgrade to the new version
> of their client software.

There's one other possibility also that doesn't involve changing the client: User installing a transparent local POP3 proxy that talks regular old POP3 (or IMAP) to the client but an extended protocol to the remote server. Of course there wouldn't be a whole lot of users doing this, but it's a possibility for some motivated ones.

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