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Re: [LI] Fetchmail problem



Manoj Victor Mathew wrote:

> Shirish Bhagwat wrote puzzled:
> >
> > fetchmail: POP3> LAST
> > fetchmail: POP3< -ERR unimplemented
> > fetchmail: unimplemented
> > fetchmail: POP3> UIDL
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK
> > fetchmail: POP3< 1 170
> > fetchmail: POP3< 2 169
> >
> > Does this mean implementation is not there on ISP server?
>
> Precisely. POP3 protocol has some mandatory commands, and some optional
> commands. LAST is an optional command that is obsolete. Hence most POP3
> servers do not implement LAST.
>
> In the above given conversation between your ISP server and fetchmail,
> fetchmail sends LAST command to find the next *unread* message; but gets
> a -ERR reply. fetchmail then issues UIDL (another optional command). The
> UIDL listing can be used by fetchmail (or any POP3 client) to determine
> the last unread message at the ISP server.
>
> Thus the absence of LAST does not stop fetchmail from retrieving your
> mail :-), but fetchmail must not have used LAST in the first place :-(

thanks for explaining

But so far story was great on my ISP's server, it never complained.  I
started getting this since yesterday!
And they use (used to use) BSD, does this  mean they upgraded?

I looked up man page on fetchmail and found option for forcing UIDL option.

thanks N regards,

- shirish




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