dovecot - Sep 2004 - Dovecots pop3-UIDL command impl. not RFC compliant ?

Hi !

POP3-RFC (1939) speaks about UIDL command:
The unique-id of a message is an arbitrary server-determined
string, consisting of one to 70 characters in the range 0x21
to 0x7E, which uniquely identifies a message within a maildrop and which
persists across sessions.

When I issue an UIDL command (dovecot 0.99.10.9)
I get replies like

1 1093990148.1
2 1093990148.2
3 1093990148.3
...
.

You see the problem ?
'0'-'9' and '.' are not in range 0x21-0x7E !

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Currently I'm tracking down a nasty problem with Outlook 2003 together with
dovecot acting as pop3 server.
Multile pop3 accounts, with 'leave mail on server' on. (cant turn it
off)
for no apparent reason, a couple of mails (just a few out of
thousands/hundrets)
get re-downloaded again, and again, and again ... as if client had not seen
it before.
Might be a client problem ... while trying to find out the reason for this
behaviour if found this UIDL thing.

I fear it might not be the true reason/problem for my problems with outlook
redownloading certian mails forevr, but I thought it doesnt hurt to report
it ;)

Errr.  0x21-0x7E is

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefgh
ijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~

I can see 0-9 and \. in there.

Mark Lidstone
IT and Network Support Administrator

BMT SeaTech Ltd
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Sent: 02 September 2004 14:15
To: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: [Dovecot] Dovecots pop3-UIDL command impl. not RFC compliant ?


Hi !

POP3-RFC (1939) speaks about UIDL command:
The unique-id of a message is an arbitrary server-determined string,
consisting of one to 70 characters in the range 0x21 to 0x7E, which
uniquely identifies a message within a maildrop and which persists
across sessions.

When I issue an UIDL command (dovecot 0.99.10.9)
I get replies like

1 1093990148.1
2 1093990148.2
3 1093990148.3
...
.

You see the problem ?
'0'-'9' and '.' are not in range 0x21-0x7E !

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Currently I'm tracking down a nasty problem with Outlook 2003 together
with dovecot acting as pop3 server. Multile pop3 accounts, with 'leave
mail on server' on. (cant turn it off) for no apparent reason, a couple
of mails (just a few out of
thousands/hundrets)
get re-downloaded again, and again, and again ... as if client had not
seen it before. Might be a client problem ... while trying to find out
the reason for this behaviour if found this UIDL thing.

I fear it might not be the true reason/problem for my problems with
outlook redownloading certian mails forevr, but I thought it doesnt hurt
to report it ;)