[Dovecot] POP Question

Tomi Hakala tomi.hakala at clinet.fi
Mon Oct 17 21:55:14 EEST 2005


Marc Perkel wrote:
> After upgrading to Alpha 4 I have two people complaining about a POP
> problem. Aparently they are getting their email sent to them over and
> over. They have it set to "leave messages on server" but apparently
> whatever keeps track of that is broken.
> 
> So - how is it determined with POP what is new and what is read?

By a UIDL generated by POP3 server.

I guess you did not set "pop3_uidl_format" in dovecot.conf

protocol pop3 {
  pop3_uidl_format = %v.%u
  ..
}

It was meant that POP3 logins would not work if UIDL type is not
set but there is small bug with this in alpha4pre.

-- 
Tomi Hakala


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