On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:24:26 -0500, Tim Streater wrote:
> I'm testing some software
> and want to be able to keep getting the same mail item from the server.
> But Eudora doesn't seem to let me - it knows it's already got it!
Exactly; that's what UIDs (server-assigned unique IDs for every message)
are for, so that POP clients can avoid repeatedly downloading messages
which the user instructs them not to order the server to delete,
by storing all the current UIDs
and comparing them to the set presented by the server next time;
the user typically chooses such a "leave mail on server" (LMOS)
setting either to share mail between multiple clients,
or to allow re-fetching recent mail if a client computer fails,
or to share access with a "webmail" viewer.
> How can I defeat this without throwing away the
> Eudora Folder and starting from scratch (tedious)?
> Its in a file somewhere, presumably.
Indeed it must be, but Eudora doesn't do***ent where for Mac
(it's in distinct files named "lmos.dat" under Windows).
Can you back up an "initial" Eudora Folder with settings already made,
and just keep restoring that entire backup folder, to in effect start
anew,
without having to re-define any settings?
If you want to find out exactly where those UIDs are,
you could capture some UID samples either by manually logging in
with a "telnet" client and viewing the results of a UIDL command,
or by using some other email client whose UIDs are more easily found,
then search all Eudora files for matching strings;
after all, they do have to be somewhere,
and it would hardly make any sense to encrypt or disguise them
in any way that a tool for finding files containing a string can't find.
In addition, the modification time stamps on files can narrow the search
to those which are modified upon fetching new messages
or deleting old messages from the server, when LMOS is in effect.
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