dovecot - Feb 2003 - pop3: last, and auth plain

Hi-

A couple of comments regarding the POP3 server (I realize the POP3
server is probably low priority though..)

One problem is that the "LAST" command is not supported.  Some mail
clients end up downloading all messages every time because of this
(or so I'm told).  The biggest source of these remarks is people
using the yahoo webmail front end.  I wonder if this could be added?

Also, under BSD/OS, the "auth plain" mechanism doesn't work. 
Perusing
the mailing list archives, I see that the symptoms appear just like
those that were reported earlier for another BSD system.  I'm curious
as to whether there has been any progress on that front?

Yours,
-mm-

On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 23:04, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> A couple of comments regarding the POP3 server (I realize the POP3
> server is probably low priority though..)
> 
> One problem is that the "LAST" command is not supported.  Some
mail
> clients end up downloading all messages every time because of this
> (or so I'm told).  The biggest source of these remarks is people
> using the yahoo webmail front end.  I wonder if this could be added?
http://www.remote.org/jochen/mail/info/pop3-last.html

I could add support for it, but how exactly? Maybe return the previous
message of the first unseen message?
> Also, under BSD/OS, the "auth plain" mechanism doesn't work. 
Perusing
> the mailing list archives, I see that the symptoms appear just like
> those that were reported earlier for another BSD system.  I'm curious
> as to whether there has been any progress on that front?
All BSD issues should have been fixed by now. I just tested with FreeBSD
5 and Linux, AUTH PLAIN worked just fine in both. Does USER+PASS work?
Try enabling auth_verbose = yes?

And what errors exactly do you see now? There's been several different
BSD errors :)