The Eudora kludge

John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@cmu.edu> Tue, 24 May 1994 15:49 UTC

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From: John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@cmu.edu>
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Subject: The Eudora kludge
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Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU> writes:
>  6) Does the POP3 specification document that you're supposed to show the UNIX
>     Status: header line?  If not, be aware that Eudora, a very important POP3
>     client, screws up in major ways if that line is missing.  Since I do not
>     do things this way, I end up having to go to some fairly major kludgery to
>     imitate a Status: header line for Eudora food.  Any POP3 document that
>     does not include this requirement is not doing server implementors any
>     favors.  Since Eudora is pretty much the reference POP3 client, the spec
>     should match it.  Otherwise you have a spec that isn't really the spec.

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The Eudora kludge John Gardiner Myers
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