[Dovecot] noob - Outlook Duplicate Problem Question

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Nov 12 16:51:17 EET 2004


On 9.11.2004, at 18:53, Jeff Ramsey wrote:

> 	I read the archives about the Outlook Duplicate Message problem 
> regarding the setting 'Leave a copy on the Server'. I read that 
> someone fixed this by changing the order of the UIDL from 
> datestamp.message# to message#.datestamp. My question is if I make 
> that change in my source for 0.99-11, will the 1.0 version have a fix 
> for this included, or should I look for another pop3 server? I'd like 
> to continue to use dovecot as it is very light and fast, but I'm 
> trying to eliminate using source compiled binaries on my production 
> servers, and letting YUM do my updates for me. I can compile this 
> version from source, using the fix that was mentioned in the September 
> Archives for this list, if I know that the problem (which is an MS 
> problem, go figure) will be gone in future RPM binary packages.

It's not a good idea anymore to change the default UIDL generation, but 
I will most likely make it configurable before v1.0.

Dovecot 0.99.x isn't very good as pop3 server, so it wouldn't be a bad 
idea to try another pop3 server either.
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