Help I've got an XP on my Linux network

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 01:49 +0300, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 00:28 +0300, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> > 
> 
> > That's not entirely true, Kostas.  The pop server can (and most do) add
> > an X-UID header line to _viewed_ messages.  When the server scans the
> > inbox the next time, the presence of an X-UID header line means the
> > message has been previously viewed (and is therefore "old").
> 
> Well i opened an email which would fell in the category of "old" as
> you describe it . It had an X-UIDL line with an some alphanumeric
> garbage in it namely "<n8!!(*I"!_Xa!!*:!"! " . Can this be the thing you 
> are
> refering to ?

Yup.  That's the one.  The data is often an index into the mbox file and
aa date.

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