Re: pop3: avoid fetching a mail twice

On Monday 02 May 2005 10:22, DINH Viet Hoa wrote:

> (1) are you using the driver API ?
> (mailstorage / mailfolder / mailmessage)
>
> (2) or are you using the low-level POP3 API ?
>
> 1. the driver API will provide the cache for you.
>
> 2. in the low-level API, you can get the information of the message.
>
> int mailpop3_get_msg_info(mailpop3 * f, unsigned int index,
>                            struct mailpop3_msg_info ** result);
>
> struct mailpop3_msg_info {
>   unsigned int msg_index;
>   uint32_t msg_size;
>   char * msg_uidl;
>   int msg_deleted;
> };
>
> msg_uidl will be a unique identifier for the message and it will be kept
> between two connections.

Thank you for the quick response. Currently I'm using the driver API. As I 
understand, the cache depends on the Berkely db, and that is missing on my 
system. I think I have to consider the low-level API.

Thank you,
Tom


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