[pmmail-list] Update from Peter Nielsen

[Brian Morrison]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:47:50, Paul Hodges wrote:

>On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:29:21, Brian Morrison wrote:
>
>>  now you know where the ability to switch off 'Fast Interrogation' came from
>
>Hey, me too!  It took me well over a year to persuade BoB that such a
>problem even existed.  Perhaps it just took two of us :-)
>
>It's a feature of the UK ISP Demon's POP implementation, and is also
>true of Peter Moylan's Weasel server - the difference being that
>Demon's numbers can change on any new login (because it generates the
>list each time by polling the SMTP queues on several servers
>asynchronously), but Weasel's only if a new message has been received
>(because the sequence is ordered by file name, and a new message may
>have a file name that doesn't go at the end of the sequence).
>
>As there is no requirement in the RFC for the message sequence to be
>the same on successive logins, I believe that the default setting
>should be changed to have fast interrogation off (rather than on as
>it is now).

Yes, I use both of those! I even gave BoB access to a special user name
using Demon's name+host mechanism so that he could send me messages and
read them back from my POP mailbox and see what was going on. Like you
it took me a phenomenal amount of time to convince him there was a
problem, this was just after the first PMMail for Windows release as I
didn't use POP very often on the OS/2 box due to first sendmail and
later on Weasel handling mail using smtp.

As you say, the RFC goes to the trouble of saying that UID is the
*only* feature of a message guaranteed to be preserved between
sessions.

Agree with you on the default as well, that should be a really simple
change to implement.

-- 
Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk
              do you know how far this has gone?
               just how damaged have I become?
                                      'Even Deeper' by Nine Inch Nails

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