Re: IMAP IDLE + UIDL patch

I understand, I wasn't looking for it to be ported to later versions, just if anyone had done any quick work
themselves to get it to work with IDLE. I wasn't to hopeful, mostly curious.

Thanks!

Nathan

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[mailto:fetchmail-users-bounces <at> lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Matthias Andree
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 2:41 AM
To: fetchmail-users <at> lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [fetchmail-users] IMAP IDLE + UIDL patch

Am 21.12.2011 17:17, schrieb Nathan Wheeler:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I was able to use Clint's patch for IMAP UID from back in 2004 to patch a more recent version 6.3.9 (this is
what the 10.04 Ubuntu repos use). It works just fine except when I use IDLE with IMAP. It doesn't seem to
write the UID it created in the .fetchids file with IDLE.
> 
> Has anyone gotten this to work? I'm not too good with C myself.
> 
> Original patch: 
> http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2004-March/008445.ht
> ml

Nathan,

the patch is conceptually flawed in that it does not heed the UIDVALIDITY value related to UID.  Porting it to
newer (but still
obsolete) versions of fetchmail without adding proper UIDVALIDITY query/handling is violating the
standard and looking for trouble in practice.

Any attempts to bring in new features are best made on the development versions (7.0.0 alphas), against the
Git master or next branches, or at the very least against the latest released 6.3.X version (the latter
means running the risk of not being ported forward to future version).

Sorry this isn't more helpful.  I have plans to add IMAP UID support to fetchmail 7.0.0 to overcome some of the
limitations in older fetchmail releases, but looking at how much progress I've made in the past four
months that I've had a new real-live job, I expect that to take a
(longer) while.

Best regards,
Matthias
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