Re: A suggestion for RFC1939

Solar Designer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.pop3ext
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> >
> >    In which case I'd rather go ahead with the following sequence.
> >    DELE 20000304062907.AAA.e0081efb
> >    DELE 20000304062908.AAA.e0081efb
> >    DELE ...........
> >    ..................
> >    QUIT
> 
> This syntax is ambiguous, UIDs can be simple numbers and so confused
> with message-numbers.

Multiple instances of the same message can also have the same UID,
so with an approach like this it would be ambiguous which instance
gets deleted.

Signed,
Solar Designer
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