🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <slrn6jnelc.1a7.julian@ruby.cbhs.school.nz>, Ariancylch
<julian@ruby.cbhs.school.nz> writes
>I wrote !POPClient not that long after asking for the
>`multiple connection' feature in !POP and being told (perhaps rightly) that
>it's something few people would want, and thus fairly low down the list.

More to the point, !POP would need totally re-writing to support
multiple connections.  (For what its worth the first version of !POP
didn't even use sockets - it used the Telnet module from Acorn's late,
unlamented !VT220 application, so the bit that handles connections is,
er, unconventional).  I certainly won't be offended if anybody can do
better...

However, I'd strongly suggest that anybody writing a POP client talks to
the authors of Newsbase, Pluto etc. about handling read/deleted
messages:  The "server side" mechanisms for doing this (the LAST command
and "Status:" header entries) have never been standardised and most
PC/Mac clients now use the UIDL method - but this requires greater
integration between transport and mailbase/client.


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Daniel Pead
Email: dan@octpen.demon.co.uk    WWW: http://www.octpen.demon.co.uk/