[Imap-uw] Reg. POP UID.

[Dister Kemp]

Thanks Mark for your help. Sorry about my late reply, but was trying this
method and it did work.

My query on related lines (though not c-client related per se), is:
I find this technique of UID matching a bit arcane for POP
as in the case of a mailbox with 1000s of messages this process
of matching UIDs is a performance overhead. I was wondering
how this is done efficiently(if at all) by the other email clients out
there.

Appreciate your help again.
Dister


On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Mark Crispin <MRC at washington.edu> wrote:


> POP3 UIDs (UIDL command) are not directly supported by c-client.  You

> would have to write your own routine that sends a UIDL command to the POP3

> server and stores the returned UID strings someplace.  For example, you

> might add code that does something like this after the mail_exists() call

> in pop3_open() in file pop3.c:

>

>   unsigned long msgno;

>   char *s,*uid,*r;

>                                /* send UIDL command */

>   if (pop3_send (stream,"UIDL",NIL)

>                                /* parse replies until "." line */

>     while ((s = net_getline (LOCAL->netstream) && strcmp (s,".") &&

>           (msgno = strtoul (s,&uid,10)) && uid &&

>           (uid = strtok_r (uid," ",&r))) {

>       stash_uid (msgno,uid);   /* stash the returned UID */

>       fs_give ((void **) &s);  /* return the line to free storage */

>     }

>                                /* return any final line to free storage */

>   if (s) fs_give ((void **) &s);

>

> Then write a stash_uid() routine that does whatever.

>

> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Dister Kemp wrote:

> > Hello,

> >

> >     I am presently working on an email client on top of UW c-client.

> > I am trying to bring in leave mails on server feature as in many other

> > clients.

> > My interest lies in knowing if c-client supports POP UIDs and if so

> > where and how to manage these with c-client API.

> > I would also like to add in my thanks to the people behind this effort

> > (Mark Crispin and team) for providing this API which has been quite

> > a breeze to import till now.

> >

> > Thanks

> > Dister

> >

>

> -- Mark --

>

> http://staff.washington.edu/mrc

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> Si vis pacem, para bellum.

>

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