[dev] Re: Re: Read to POP3 without delete messages

[Denis Jedig]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:22:34 +0100 Christian Schoepplein wrote:

>>Denis Jedig ha scritto:
>>
>>>UIDL is marked as an "optional command" in RFC1939[1] 
> 
> Hmm. If it is not a general standard which is supported by all pop3 
> servers, we can not integrate it in the standard OTRS releases :(.

It is basically a standard, as it is defined with the POP3 protocol. It is
surely optional, but many other things in OTRS are, S/MIME for example.
However, I would recommend to add two additional boolean parameters in
regard to the UIDL functionality: "use UIDL" and "delete messages after
fetching". Some broken UIDL implementations do change the UIDL
occasionally, resulting in multiple deliveries of the same message, which
is rather undesirable with OTRS.

I believe that as of current, people wanting UIDL functionality with POP3
are using fetchmail/procmail/Piping-to-Postmaster constellations.

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Denis Jedig
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