Re: [Off Topic] Need review for POP3 extension mechanism

At 8:37 AM -0600 7/10/98, Steve Hole wrote:
>
>The document should definitely be standards track.   Certain "optional"
>features like UIDL and TOP are unwieldly at best to implement without a
>capability probe.   Perhaps it is because we were an IMAP4 mailer first
>(and therefore use to CAPABILITY), I *really* found I missed it in POP3.
>

If some one needs a concrete reason why probing is a problem, here's one:
If you do a TOP command and you get back -ERR you don't know if that
paritcular TOP command failed because the message wasn't available, or
because the TOP command isn't implemented.

LL