[Dovecot] POP3 extension to accept UIDL ranges?
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Thu Mar 9 20:45:35 EET 2006
On Mar 9, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Matthias Andree wrote:
> is anybody aware of an extension to POP3 that supports UIDL ranges?
>
> It would be very useful for keep-messages-on-server setups (yes, I
> know,
> IMAP4 domain) to be able to do UIDL 21-42 to obtain just these 22 UIDs
> (this would always have to be a multi-line reply, just like UIDL
> without
> argument).
>
> If such a thing does not exist yet, perhaps a keyword such as
> "[X]UIDLRANGES" in the CAPA response might advertise this feature to
> clients.
So, if no POP3 clients support this, why add an extension instead of
using IMAP?
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