retrieveing mail from a pop3 account
Cameron Laird
claird at starbase.neosoft.com
Thu Jul 27 20:44:02 EDT 2000
In article <ZW3g5.13990$4p3.108606 at news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
Mark Hammond <MarkH at ActiveState.com> wrote:
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>The pop server should probably fail when asking for message 0, but there
>may be a reason why it doesnt - Ive never read the relevant RFC in detail.
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>Mark.
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It's 1939 <URL:http://sunsite.auc.dk/RFC/rfc/rfc1939.html>.
As I read it, conformant servers are required to announce
-ERR no such message
for such out-of-bounds requests as 0. They don't, though;
that is, the first one I examined (a very popular POPper)
gives a different message, but *does* return no content for
zero. I know others have still other behavior.
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