[dev] IMAP with POP3 without attachments, bug?

[Joris Braakman]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:02:54PM -0400, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> Quoting Joris Braakman <jorisb@nl.euro.net>:
> 
> > So the only thing that is changed is the server, no files are changed.
> > That means that there is some sort of bug when dealing with a pop 
> > server and mime attachments, right? 
> 
> Not so much a bug as that POP3 simply provides no nice mechanism for dealing 
> with attachments; you can't fetch anything other than a whole message. So c-
> client doesn't support it.

A older version of IMP 2.3 did handle attachments, I still have it
running. If I understand correctly somewhere allong the line support for
mime attachments with pop3 was dropped/removed. Maybe by moving to a
different standard library. Or maybe because pop3 is not so commenly used
anymore as it was and supporting it is a nightmare. 

So to have pop3 with correct attachments I have no choice of going
back to the old code base?

Regards, Joris.



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Subject: Re: [dev] IMAP with POP3 without attachments, bug?

Quoting Joris Braakman <jorisb@nl.euro.net>:

> A older version of IMP 2.3 did handle attachments, I still have it
> running. If I understand correctly somewhere allong the line support for
> mime attachments with pop3 was dropped/removed. Maybe by moving to a
> different standard library. Or maybe because pop3 is not so commenly used
> anymore as it was and supporting it is a nightmare. 
> 
> So to have pop3 with correct attachments I have no choice of going
> back to the old code base?

We haven't removed anything. How we handle attachments changed a little, but we 
didn't go out and remove support for a whole class of things. If you can figure 
out where it worked and when it stopped working, we might get somewhere.

-chuck

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Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
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