Re: General Problems with Balsa

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2001.11.05 09:02:39 +0000 Brian Stafford wrote:
> On Sun,  4 November 19:48 Carlos Morgado wrote:
> 
>> humm, does any other client work with this server ? my guess here is the
>> message uidls aren't being seen correctly. i've seen this kind of thing
>> happen with some servers if you delete from the mailbox. the pop server 
>> just
>> rehashes all the uidls and breaks everything.
>   ^^^^^^^^ assigns new?
> 
yes, assigns new.

> RFC 1939 requires that the uid is persistent across sessions even if the 
> UPDATE command is not issued.  Although it is not stated explicitly the 
> impliciation of this requirement is that for a given message the associated 
> uid MUST NOT change.
> 
what i seen was, get list, get uidls, issue a dele, uidls changed.
poof.
i happened on a freebsd server, but i haven't chased it in a long time

> 
> I conclude that the server behaviour described above is non-conformant.
> 

yeah, i was wondering if the original report wasn't a balsa bug for a
change ;)

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