[Dovecot] POP3 UIDL

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Feb 7 00:30:10 UTC 2007


On 7.2.2007, at 0.29, FiL @ Kpoxa wrote:

> No, LIST and STAT are working.
>
> This is only about UIDL command.
>
> Looks like %m is not implemented for Maildir, but why?
> Am migrating from mbox and would like to keep the UIDL format. What  
> should I use then?
>
> P.S. Tried %Mf - works fine, but I don't know what does it do.
> Will play with it a bit later. Sorry for the confusion.

Well, you're right that %m doesn't work with maildir. The biggest  
reason is that as far as I know there is no other POP3 server that  
uses MD5 headers for POP3 UIDLs and it's just extra work for Dovecot.  
But if it just didn't return anything, that's a bug. I'll get that  
fixed..
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